Deprecate Buffers.

[Luben Karavelov]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:12:08 +1000, Vasily Chekalkin <bacek at bacek.com>
wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Currently we have STRING and Buffers as one of core GCable objects.
> Buffers were introduced long time ago, before ByteBuffer PMC. At this
> point of Buffers used only in Packfiles and can be easiliy replaced
> with BytBuffer.
> 
> I would like to deprecate Buffers. It will simplify life of ony GC
> implementors (e.g. me with gc_massacre), cleanup code, decrease
> maintenance cost, etc.


+1 from me.

Also "bufferlike_header" pool is not used anymore and it's purpose is 
unclear to me - comments refer to code that does not exist anymore in
the tree.

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