Redesigning String, optimising small strings and comparison

[tecosaur]

@tecosaur

So, I’m considering making another thread (maybe in #GeneralUsage?), asking for community help putting together a nice collection of string-oriented tasks.

This thread now exists in General Usage

Community string benchmark suite

Hello! I’d like your help formulating a high-quality suite of string benchmarks. Over in Internals & Design I’ve started a conversation about potentially renovating String’s memory representation to reduce memory usage with small strings, and improve comparison performance across the board At this point, a bunch of potential designs have been floated, but one of the things that makes them hard to evaluate is that a lot of the choices come down to tradeoffs, and (just speaking for …