> Does he think languages with built in String types have some magical optimization juice that make string operations fast? How long does it take to instantiate

> Does he think languages with built in String types have some magical optimization juice that make string operations fast? How long does it take to instantiate a new String object, run it's copy constructor, blah blah. No, I don't think that. I didn't mention it because I wasn't talking about languages with built-in String types; I was talking about C.