Re: DAVEM TPF Grant#3 August 2026 report

On Tue, Sep 1, 2026, at 6:49 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> This month I worked on a few miscellaneous items, and started to
> document (and improve code comments etc) for the regex engine's
> super-linear cache, which it turns out no one really understands any more
> (including me).
> 
> SUMMARY:
>       1:45 GH #24763 Stale numeric value in scalar still used after string modification
>      18:29 document regex super-linear cache
>       2:44 review PR #24557: Add MAYBE modifier to ExtUtils::ParseXS
>       1:12 tweak perlxs.pod
>     ------
>      24:10 TOTAL (HH::MM)

Thanks Dave, +1 from me!

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_august_2026

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