Doesn the bounds protection decrease the performance of Bstrlib?
A. For most operations, no. This only affects per-character operations, where by default Bstrlib favors safety over performance. However, one can always achieve higher performance by gaining direct access to the buffer as necessary. I.e., its easy to be safe and fast most of the time, and requires just a little effort (its just a little more same-line typing) to be less-safe but always fast.
