[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

ronnie sahlberg wrote:

> What someone should implement (ill do it next week or so unless
> someone else wants to give it a try) to optimize access speed and the
> cost of val_to_str()   is to change
> val_to_str() to
> 1, When we find an entry in a value_string   keep track of the index
> into the array in a variable cnt.
> 2, Swap the entry at cnt (the one we found) with the entry cnt>>1 
> (IFF cnt!=cnt>>1).

...after de-constifying all the value_string tables; otherwise, 
modifying the table will get an access failure.