Better String Handling for the Kernel

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Oh look, reinventing the string wheel, badly, again. Now we have the string split over 2 regions of memory, the cache will be so happy.

What exactly should they do instead? The fact there is even a debate over this is an indictment of C.

Welcome to 1984. This is how strings looked in Common Lisp. Just macro over everything, and it'll be fine. /s