The method .into_owned() is meant to be used as an optimization when you
need to get a ~str from a Str, but don't want to unnecessarily copy it
if it's already a ~str.
This is meant to ease functions that look like
fn foo<S: Str>(strs: &[S])
Previously they could work with the strings as slices using .as_slice(),
but producing ~str required copying the string, even if the vector
turned out be a &[~str] already.