C++26: String and String_view Improvements
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- #standard library
- #C++26
- #string_view
- C++26 introduces new constructors for stringstream and bitset that accept string_view, eliminating the need for manual conversion to std::string and improving performance by avoiding unnecessary copies.
- The new operator+ overloads in C++26 allow direct concatenation of std::string and std::string_view, fixing a long-standing ergonomic issue; previous workarounds were inefficient or error-prone.
- These changes are additive and do not break existing code, with support already available in recent compiler versions like Clang 18/19 and GCC 15.