Re: DAVEM TPF Grant#3 May 2026 report

On Mon, Jun 1, 2026, at 6:28 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 / drd' and the
> threads-related tests can be repeatedly run in 40 terminals for days
> without issue.
> 
> I've pushed the work as GH ##24439.
> 
> SUMMARY:
>      20:21 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_may_2026

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