Jonathan writes: The majority of my Perl 6 grant time during February was spent on the escape analysis and scalar replacement work. Happily, the first round of work on this analysis and optimization reached the point of being complete and stable enough to merge into MoarVM master, so Perl 6 users can now benefit from it. I also made allocation profiling aware of scalar replacement, meaning profiling does not block

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 37 tickets were reviewed, and 9 patches were applied 0.85 #108276 re-test, apply to blead 12.83 #124203 reproduce, debugging at start of DB::sub>, try to bisect #124203 bisect some more, review results, notice change in bug and

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2019/01/maintaining-perl-5-tony-cook-d-1.html http://news.perlfoundation.org/2019/02/maintaining-perl-5-tony-cook-j-1.html http://news.perlfoundation.org/2019/03/maintaining-perl-5-tony-cook-f-1.html Before we make a

Brrt reports that February was busy and short, but that he did some research on other implementations of register allocation that he can apply to MoarVM JIT. He notes the following conundrum that he has been thinking about. Maybe a reader can advise: I've also encountered a limitation in the optimization of the IR, which I'm trying to resolve. The issue is this, if I have a bunch of code

Timo has written a new blog post with the latest updates. Read more at: Always Wear Safety Equipment When Inline Scalaring!

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. This "monthly" report covers 3 months, as I've been failing to do much work on perl for a while. Hopefully things will improve now. The main thing I have been doing over this time is fixing issues related to smoke reports. In particular

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 March 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through March 22nd, and

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November 2018 round. There was one proposal this round, which was approved and funded. While we would normally have concluded this process sooner, there were delays related to the skipped January/February round, my apologies to all those impacted. Voting results: Approved and funded: 4 yes votes with a score of 18 Feedback generally positive suggested that future grants be considered in

I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2019 mentor organization. You can still submit new ideas or propose yourself as a mentor. To add ideas, or to become a mentor, see our GitHub repo. Students can connect with us at our Google Summer of Code page. I appreciate the hard work made by the community volunteers, especially JJ Merelo,

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 54 tickets were reviewed, and 11 patches were applied 8.88 #108276 review #108276 check over committed changes, look to re-work, ask list about PERL_OP_PARENT #108276 cleanup PERL_OP_PARENT detritus #108276 review old patches, re-work, testing #108276 more

Jonathan writes: January was a busy and productive month for my Perl 6 grant work. Back in November, I was working on allowing us to lower lexical variables into locals. This is possible when they are not closed over, and allows for generation of more efficient code, which is in turn much easier for backends MoarVM, the JVM, and JavaScript to deal with in their own optimizers. It can also

Dave Rolsky taught classes at YAPC/TPC for a number of years and he was compensated for it. As Dave is a new member of the TPF Board and TPF organizes TPC, there is a potential conflict of interest. Dave wishes to continue his class. The typical rate paid by students is in the range of $150-$175 TPC takes a portion of it to cover expense such as venue and the

Brrt is untangling the intricacies of floating point expressions so close to the metal in his He provides some of his insights Here is his brief report Last month, I've been busy with floating point support. Getting that ready involved two things: Getting the type system for the expression template precompiler ready. This works now, I'm happy with the result. Fixing the register allocator to support it. This works as

This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 27 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 9 patches were applied. 0.52 Cpan #122912 followup 0.33 #131165 review, make public, comment and close 6.29 #133030 review discussion and my old patch, research #133030 testing, cross-platform testing, fixes

Due to the lack of a budget for 2019, the Grants Committee process to request grant proposals is stalled. Once funds for the current year are allocated, we will re-open the RFP process. If you have further questions, please contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org.

The Perl Foundation is participating in Google Summer of Code again this year. Projects on Perl 5, Perl 6 modules or infrastructure are all equally welcome. Currently we are seeking project ideas and mentors. The GSoC page has some more information on what it means becoming a mentor. Ideas are collected in a GitHub repo, so just open a pull request with your idea. Deadline for project idea and mentor

Timo has implemented a new graph for the overview page: Graph items, when selected, display more information such as the file name and line number. The file name and line number are clickable and will take you to the file and line in GitHub. Read more at:

Back in August 2018, André Walker reported on his initial work to revitalize the revitalizing of blogs.perl.org. He made the following report to the TPF Grants Committee on 14 Aug 2018 The latest report as of this post can be found here. Short update regarding grant progress. I have most of the major features I wanted to implement already in place, even if some are a bit rough. So it's

André Walker reports significant progress on his bold attempt to revitalize blogs.perl.org. He made the following report to the TPF Grants Committee on 3 Jan 2019 I will also backpost another report André made to the Committee in Aug 2018 shortly. The work I set out to do for the grant on blogs.perl.org is almost complete. Here is a breakdown of what is done, what is missing for a first

Jonathan Worthington recently requested an extension of his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $10,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 167 hours to this work. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl