Span<T> was recently added to C# 7.2 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/15/welcome-to-c-7-2-and-span/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/

Span<T> was recently added to C# 7.2 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/15/welcome-to-c-7-2-and-span/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/15/welcome-t..., and the early proposal was discussed a bit on HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713186 Also this blog post has more examples and benchmarks for people interested: http://adamsitnik.com/Span/ http://adamsitnik.com/Span/