timhudson/xml-nodes — pull request #4 by timhudson (2014-09-15 00:15:40+00:00)
Title: Buffers

This was benchmarked and the performance isn't great:
buffers x 0.08 ops/sec ±1.08% (5 runs sampled)
strings x 0.14 ops/sec ±0.59% (5 runs sampled)

Memory usage was better but not significantly. I'm tempted to just stick with manipulating strings for now.