Well, there's the primary benefits: I can avoid making copies of arrays, and I am spared the burden of passing startIndex and length everywhere. The secondary benefit is huge in game dev: a span can reference managed or unmanaged memory! So, regardless of whether the underlying data came from a new byte[...] in C# or a malloc in C (common in my native libraries like SQLite), I can write nice clean C# code to interact with it.
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Well, there's the primary benefits: I can avoid making copies of arrays, and I am spared the burden of passing
startIndexandlengtheverywhere. The secondary benefit is huge in game dev: a span can reference managed or unmanaged memory! So, regardless of whether the underlying data came from anew byte[...]in C# or amallocin C (common in my native libraries like SQLite), I can write nice clean C# code to interact with it.