[perl #44499] [TODO] Move cstrings to String Structure

[Christoph Otto via RT]

On Tue Jun 10 07:03:02 2008, julianalbo wrote:
> I've made some more work on this patch. First, fixed an error that
> breaks pdb build. Then, replacing the string_to_cstring function in a
> lot more places, and adding a new packfile function to find the
> location of a label without strings copying. The latter gives a
> noticeable speedup. I'm not sure about the correctness of the packfile
> usage, but all test pass in my system, Linux i386.
> 

I tried to apply this patch to svn head, but it's different enough that
much of it will need to be rewritten.  If this is something worth
pursuing, I'm willing to reimplement and apply the patch (if NotFound
isn't interested).  If not, this ticket should be rejected.