diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f2a45eb..5e3f836 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@
 /examples/rust-simple/Cargo.lock
 /examples/rust-simple/build
 /examples/rust-simple/target
+/examples/rust-string/Cargo.lock
+/examples/rust-string/build
+/examples/rust-string/target
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index aefe7ca..3a95571 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -60,12 +60,19 @@ project(':examples') {
             compileOnly project(':compiler')
         }
 
+        ext.rustBuildRelease = true
+
         task rustToWasm(type: Exec) {
-            commandLine 'cargo', 'build', '--release'
+            if (rustBuildRelease) {
+                commandLine 'cargo', 'build', '--release'
+            } else {
+                commandLine 'cargo', 'build'
+            }
         }
 
         ext.wasmFileName = { ->
-            def wasmFiles = fileTree(dir: 'target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release', includes: ['*.wasm']).files
+            def buildType = rustBuildRelease ? 'release' : 'debug'
+            def wasmFiles = fileTree(dir: "target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/$buildType", includes: ['*.wasm']).files
             if (wasmFiles.size() != 1) throw new GradleException('Expected single WASM file, got ' + wasmFiles.size())
             return wasmFiles.iterator().next()
         }
@@ -111,4 +118,17 @@ project(':examples:rust-simple') {
     }
 
     mainClassName = 'asmble.examples.rustsimple.Main'
+}
+
+project(':examples:rust-string') {
+    apply plugin: 'application'
+    ext.wasmCompiledClassName = 'asmble.generated.RustString'
+    dependencies {
+        compile files('build/wasm-classes')
+    }
+    compileJava {
+        dependsOn compileWasm
+    }
+
+    mainClassName = 'asmble.examples.ruststring.Main'
 }
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diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e186001
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+## Examples
+
+### Rust
+
+In order of complexity:
+
+* [rust-simple](rust-simple)
+* [rust-string](rust-string)
+* rust-regex
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diff --git a/examples/rust-simple/README.md b/examples/rust-simple/README.md
index 5beeedc..a7e9843 100644
--- a/examples/rust-simple/README.md
+++ b/examples/rust-simple/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ to `asmble.generated.RustSimple` in `build/wasm-classes`. The class is used by
 To run it yourself, run the following from the root `asmble` dir (assuming you have built the Gradle wrapper described
 in the root README's "Building and Testing" section):
 
-    ./gradlew --no-daemon :examples:rust-simple:run
+    gradlew --no-daemon :examples:rust-simple:run
 
 Yes, this does include Rust's std lib, but it's not that big of a deal (I'm keeping it around because in other examples
 as part of [issue #9](https://github.com/cretz/asmble/issues/9) I'll need it). The actual method executed for `add_one`
diff --git a/examples/rust-string/.cargo/config b/examples/rust-string/.cargo/config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..435ed75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rust-string/.cargo/config
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[build]
+target = "wasm32-unknown-unknown"
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diff --git a/examples/rust-string/Cargo.toml b/examples/rust-string/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94e91c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rust-string/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[package]
+name = "rust_string"
+version = "0.1.0"
+
+[lib]
+crate-type = ["cdylib"]
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diff --git a/examples/rust-string/README.md b/examples/rust-string/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc2649e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rust-string/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+### Example: Rust String
+
+This shows an example of using Rust strings on the JVM. This builds on [rust-simple](../rust-simple).
+
+In this version, we do allocation and deallocation on the Rust side and we have a Java pointer object that deallocates
+on finalization. Inside of Rust, we make sure not to take ownership of any of the data. To demonstrate string use, we
+implement two functions on the Rust side: one for string length and another for prepending "From Rust: ". Both don't
+take strings directly, but instead pointers and lengths to the byte arrays.
+
+To run it yourself, run the following from the root `asmble` dir:
+
+    gradlew --no-daemon :examples:rust-string:run
+
+In release mode, the generated class is 128KB w/ a bit over 200 methods, but it is quite fast. The output:
+
+    Char count of 'tester': 6
+    Char count of Russian hello (Здравствуйте): 12
+    From Rust: Hello, World!
+
+For me on Windows, the Russian word above just appears as `????????????`, but the rest is right.
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diff --git a/examples/rust-string/src/lib.rs b/examples/rust-string/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3fb74de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rust-string/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#![feature(allocator_api)]
+
+use std::heap::{Alloc, Heap, Layout};
+use std::ffi::{CString};
+use std::mem;
+use std::os::raw::c_char;
+use std::str;
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub extern "C" fn string_len(ptr: *mut u8, len: usize) -> usize {
+    unsafe {
+        let bytes = Vec::<u8>::from_raw_parts(ptr, len, len);
+        let len = str::from_utf8(&bytes).unwrap().chars().count();
+        mem::forget(bytes);
+        len
+    }
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub extern "C" fn prepend_from_rust(ptr: *mut u8, len: usize) -> *const c_char {
+    unsafe {
+        let bytes = Vec::<u8>::from_raw_parts(ptr, len, len);
+        let s = str::from_utf8(&bytes).unwrap();
+        mem::forget(s);
+        let cstr = CString::new(format!("From Rust: {}", s)).unwrap();
+        let ret = cstr.as_ptr();
+        mem::forget(cstr);
+        return ret
+    }
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub extern "C" fn alloc(size: usize) -> *mut u8 {
+    unsafe {
+        let layout = Layout::from_size_align(size, mem::align_of::<u8>()).unwrap();
+        Heap.alloc(layout).unwrap()
+    }
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub extern "C" fn dealloc(ptr: *mut u8, size: usize) {
+    unsafe  {
+        let layout = Layout::from_size_align(size, mem::align_of::<u8>()).unwrap();
+        Heap.dealloc(ptr, layout);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/examples/rust-string/src/main/java/asmble/examples/ruststring/Lib.java b/examples/rust-string/src/main/java/asmble/examples/ruststring/Lib.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d19847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rust-string/src/main/java/asmble/examples/ruststring/Lib.java
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+package asmble.examples.ruststring;
+
+import asmble.generated.RustString;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+// Not thread safe!
+class Lib {
+    private final RustString rustString;
+
+    Lib(RustString rustString) {
+        this.rustString = rustString;
+    }
+
+    int stringLength(String str) {
+        Ptr strPtr = ptrFromString(str);
+        return rustString.string_len(strPtr.offset, strPtr.size);
+    }
+
+    String prependFromRust(String str) {
+        Ptr strPtr = ptrFromString(str);
+        int nullTermOffset = rustString.prepend_from_rust(strPtr.offset, strPtr.size);
+        return nullTermedStringFromOffset(nullTermOffset);
+    }
+
+    private Ptr ptrFromString(String str) {
+        byte[] bytes = str.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        Ptr ptr = new Ptr(bytes.length);
+        ptr.put(bytes);
+        return ptr;
+    }
+
+    private String nullTermedStringFromOffset(int offset) {
+        ByteBuffer memory = rustString.getMemory();
+        memory.position(offset);
+        // We're going to turn the mem into an input stream. This is the
+        //  reasonable way to stream a UTF8 read using standard Java libs
+        //  that I could find.
+        InputStreamReader r = new InputStreamReader(new InputStream() {
+            @Override
+            public int read() throws IOException {
+                if (!memory.hasRemaining()) {
+                    return -1;
+                }
+                return memory.get() & 0xFF;
+            }
+        }, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        try {
+            while (true) {
+                int c = r.read();
+                if (c <= 0) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                builder.append((char) c);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        rustString.dealloc(offset, memory.position() - offset);
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
+
+    class Ptr {
+        final int offset;
+        final int size;
+
+        Ptr(int offset, int size) {
+            this.offset = offset;
+            this.size = size;
+        }
+
+        Ptr(int size) {
+            this(rustString.alloc(size), size);
+        }
+
+        void put(byte[] bytes) {
+            // Yeah, yeah, not thread safe
+            ByteBuffer memory = rustString.getMemory();
+            memory.position(offset);
+            memory.put(bytes);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
+            rustString.dealloc(offset, size);
+        }
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/examples/rust-string/src/main/java/asmble/examples/ruststring/Main.java b/examples/rust-string/src/main/java/asmble/examples/ruststring/Main.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a0cac02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rust-string/src/main/java/asmble/examples/ruststring/Main.java
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package asmble.examples.ruststring;
+
+import asmble.generated.RustString;
+
+public class Main {
+    // 20 pages is good for now
+    private static final int PAGE_SIZE = 65536;
+    private static final int MAX_MEMORY = 20 * PAGE_SIZE;
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        Lib lib = new Lib(new RustString(MAX_MEMORY));
+        System.out.println("Char count of 'tester': " + lib.stringLength("tester"));
+        String russianHello = "\u0417\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0443\u0439\u0442\u0435";
+        System.out.println("Char count of Russian hello (" + russianHello + "): " + lib.stringLength(russianHello));
+        System.out.println(lib.prependFromRust("Hello, World!"));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 163d42b..5be81bb 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ rootProject.name = 'asmble'
 include 'annotations',
         'compiler',
         'emscripten-runtime',
-        'examples:rust-simple'
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+        'examples:rust-simple',
+        'examples:rust-string'
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