feat: return to internal string references #5486
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Undo the changes introduced in #5377. This is a trade-off where it is considerd better to have as much memory as possible allocated by the allocator, with the risk that it will be freed when still in use. Than to have significant amounts of memory allocated outside of the allocator. It should be noted that because of Go's garbage collector it is perfectly safe for memory to be "freed" when still in use. It just mean that any accounting done by the allocator will be inaccurate.
Remove the recently added StringRef type as it is now unnecessary.
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Undo the main change introduced in #5377 so that by default strings returned from
array.Stringsuse the internal memory of the stored data. This means that it is more likely that there are some cases of use-after-free errors in the flux executor, the trade-off being that there is less likely to be a proliferation of memory allocation due to string copying. Overall use-after-free errors will not cause incorrect results with regard to strings as they are read only and the Go runtime will only free the memory once the garbage collector has determined it is unused.Checklist
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