performance difference when doing quickCheck + normalize versus simple
normalize.
-* UG(unicode) is turned off during MINIT() currently. We need to figure out
- a way to avoid turning it off.
+* USTR_MAKE("") should be estrndup(EMPTY_STR)
-* USTR_MAKE("") should be EMPTY_STR
+* See if ext/pcre can ba adjusted to allow operations on pure binary
+ strings. Ideal mode would be: convert all IS_UNICODE to UTF-8, assume that
+ binary strings with /u modifier are UTF-8, otherwise it's pure binary.