C++26: String and String_view Improvements

Let’s continue our exploration of C++26 improvements. Today we focus on string_view. Some types got new constructors accepting string_views, and concatenation of strings and string_views just got easier.But let’s start with a brief reminder of what a string_view is.Reminder: the role of string_viewstd::string_view was introduced in C++17 and its purpose is to provide read-only access to a string-like object. It can often replace const string& parameters and offers a significant performance gain.

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