On Fri Apr 04 10:50:53 2008, pmichaud wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:06:39AM -0700, chromatic wrote: > > Using CONST_STRING to build the null STRING will hurt performance > less, but > > the right solution is to excise all traces of new_from_string() > throughout > > the system, and then completely forget it ever existed. > > Correct. Perhaps this ticket should be merged with RT#47011 , > which talks about new_from_string() being deprecated? (Or at least > link to that ticket.)
Ok, I've merged #52462 (regarding brokenness in the implementation of new_from_string) into #47011 (regarding deprecation of new_from_string). Note the brokenness is still causing the testsuite to hang for me when I configure Parrot with --gc=libc. Mark
