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diff --git a/Todo b/Todo
index 114a488..2602d4c 100644
--- a/Todo
+++ b/Todo
@@ -5,27 +5,39 @@ Tie Modules
 	ShiftSplice		Defines shift et al in terms of splice method
 
 Would be nice to have
-	Profiler
 	pack "(stuff)*"
 	Contiguous bitfields in pack/unpack
 	lexperl
 	Bundled perl preprocessor
 	Use posix calls internally where possible
-	const variables
-	gettimeofday
-	bytecompiler
+	gettimeofday (possibly best left for a module?)
 	format BOTTOM
-	$obj->can("method") to probe method inheritance
-	-iprefix.
 	-i rename file only when successfully changed
 	All ARGV input should act like <>
-	Multiple levels of warning
 	report HANDLE [formats].
-	tie(FILEHANDLE, ...)
-	__DATA__
 	support in perlmain to rerun debugger
-	make 'r' print return value like gdb 'fini'
-	regression tests using __WARN__ and __DIE__ hooks
+	regression tests using __DIE__ hook
+	reference to compiled regexp
+	lexically scoped functions: my sub foo { ... }
+	lvalue functions
+	regression/sanity tests for suidperl
+	Full 64 bit support (i.e. "long long").  Things to consider:
+	    how to store/retrieve 32+ integers into/from Perl scalars?
+	    32+ constants in Perl code? (non-portable!)
+	    32+ arguments/return values to/from system calls? (seek et al)
+	    32+ bit ops (&|^~, currently explicitly disabled)
+	Generalise Errno way of extracting cpp symbols and use that in
+	    Errno and Fcntl (ExtUtils::CppSymbol?)
+	The _r-problem: for all the {set,get,end}*() system database
+	     calls (and a couple more: readdir, *rand*, crypt, *time,
+	     tmpnam) there are in many systems the _r versions
+	     to be used in re-entrant (=multithreaded) code.
+	     Icky things: the _r API is not standardized and
+	     the _r-forms require per-thread data to store their state.
+	memory profiler: turn malloc.c:Perl_dump_mstats() into
+	    an extension (Devel::MProf?) that would return the malloc
+	    stats in a nice Perl datastructure (also a simple interface
+	    to return just the grand total) would be good.
 
 Possible pragmas
 	debugger
@@ -34,8 +46,6 @@ Possible pragmas
 Optimizations
 	constant function cache
 	switch structures
-	eval qw() at compile time
-	foreach (1..1000000)
 	foreach(reverse...)
 	Set KEEP on constant split
 	Cache eval tree (unless lexical outer scope used (mark in &compiling?))
@@ -43,26 +53,18 @@ Optimizations
 	Shrink opcode tables via multiple implementations selected in peep
 	Cache hash value?  (Not a win, according to Guido)
 	Optimize away @_ where possible
-	sfio?
 	"one pass" global destruction
-	Optimize sort by { $a <=> $b }
 	Rewrite regexp parser for better integrated optimization
+	LRU cache of regexp: foreach $pat (@pats) { foo() if /$pat/ }
 
 Vague possibilities
 	ref function in list context
-	Populate %SIG at startup if appropriate
-	data prettyprint function?  (or is it, as I suspect, a lib routine?)
 	make tr/// return histogram in list context?
-	undef wantarray in void context
 	Loop control on do{} et al
 	Explicit switch statements
-	perl to C translator
-	multi-thread scheduling
 	built-in globbing
 	compile to real threaded code
 	structured types
-	paren counting in tokener to queue remote expectations
 	autocroak?
 	Modifiable $1 et al
-	substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,STRING