I don't know anything about this area of the Perl core. How feasible would it be to have an API that creates an SVpv with its initial (possibly only) value pointing to a constant C string, without copying the string? The issue comes up in converting regexes to use inversion lists for Unicode and POSIX properties. The commonest of these could be compiled into a hdr file, but some of them are thousands of bytes long. It seems silly to have these read-only arrays copied elsewhere.Thread Next