# Keep in mind there is the primitive STRING type which is the S* registers, # and then there is the PMC (PerlString) which uses vtables.
I am refering to the parrots internal strings e.g. S* the vtable I am refering to is the 'encoding' vtable of functions in the string struct (*STRING).encoding (I may be misunderstanding this though, please let me know if this is not 'encodings' purpose.) # If you make calls to subroutines that may trigger a GC_collect() # then the STRING you had might be moved or collected. most of the calls that I had intede to use were already part of the internal string api. although I am not certain I would hope that these wouldnt be collected during computation. I have not looked at any of the GC parts of the source yet, I will soon. I take it that "imortal" is a flag that I can |= out of the flag INTVAL? will I need to do this on my temporary STRINGS? sorry for all the questions :-\ Roman
