Conversion of Vector{UInt8} to String without copy

[stevengj]

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I’ve often felt there should be package (VectorStrings.jl?) for this: a safe (unlike WeakRefStrings), full-featured string type that wraps an arbitrary AbstractVector{UInt8} . This also came up recently in discussions of mmapping strings .

Update: I created a draft package for this:

GitHub - JuliaStrings/StringViews.jl: String-like views of arbitrary Julia...