id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc lang patch platform 1875 "Deprecate ""constant"" PMCs." bacek bacek "Hello. Currently ""constant"" PMC/STRINGs are poor-man-generational-gc-old-objects. They are causing a lot of pain because requies very special handling on any stage of GC implementor (e.g. me). I propose to deprecate them all together. This (probably) doesn't require deprecation cycle due pure internal usage of such ""zombie PMCs"". -- Bacek" RFC closed critical 2.11 GC 2.10.0 fatal done