Re: DAVEM TPF Grant#3 April 2026 report

On Fri, May 15, 2026, at 6:03 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Last month I continued looking into race conditions in threads and
> threads::shared. I have now reached the point where the threads-related
> test suite can run cleanly under 'valgrind --tool=helgrind'. But there
> is still an occasional crash in blocks.t  when run repeatedly for many
> hours in parallel on 20 terminals, which I am currently working on. I'm
> hopeful that once that is fixed, the branch will be ready to push.
> 
> SUMMARY:
>      33:35 GH #24258 dist/threads/t/free.t: Rare test failure in debugging build on FreeBSD

Thanks Dave!

+1 from me.

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_april_2026

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)