use c_char;
use ;
use str;
;
// Coercing strs into Strings has some loss of performance
// You may use these methods temporarily but it would be much better
// to write all of this code out in each method using just str.
//
// Using these methods you will still get you 10X (= 900%) performance
// gain regardless. But really consider not using String. If you do
// as I've intstructed the performance gains will go from 900% to 1250%.