> what might be an even more relevant question is why convert the string
> to bytes anyways?  these bytes just end up in new strings, so why not
> perform the parsing logic on chars rather than bytes?  seems like
> unecessary conversions to/from bytes/strings....

Well, there are a number of operations which occur before going back to
String.
Also, the calls with Strings as parameters will go away enventually, for
memory efficiency.

Remy

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