Re: DAVEM TPF Grant#3 February 2026 report

[email protected] ("Core Grant Manager") Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:05:31 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026, at 9:38 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Last month I worked on various miscellaneous issues, including a few
> performance and deparsing regressions.
> 
> 
> SUMMARY:
>       3:00 GH #24110 ExtUtils::ParseXS after 5.51 prevents some XS modules to build
>       2:49 GH# #24212 goto void XSUB in scalar context crashes
>       7:19 XS: avoid core distros using void ST(0) hack
>       2:40 fix up Deparse breakage
>       5:41 remove OP_NULLs in OP_COND execution path
>     ------
>      21:29 TOTAL (HH::MM)

Thanks Dave, +1 from me!

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_february_2026

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