On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Yet another bummer of the current SVs is that they poorly fit into > 'foreign memory' situations where the buffer is managed by something > else than Perl. "No, thank you, Perl, keep your greedy fingers off > this chunk. No, you may not play with it." Out of curiousity, when might such a situation arise? When you are embedding C in Perl, perhaps? Dave