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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for February 2016 Fri, 08-Apr-2016 by Karen Pauley

    Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 14 patches were applied. and are related in that both problems are related to the same set of changes. Between perl 5.8 and 5.16 inclusive, perl cached the CV for DESTROY in overload magic for the stash. This was four times faster than the simple method lookup previously done each time an object needed to be destroyed.

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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for January 2016 Mon, 22-Feb-2016 by Karen Pauley
    in: Grants

    Tony Cook writes: Approximately 43 tickets were reviewed, and 11 patches were applied Hours Activity 2.38 #123737 testing, apply to blead #123737 testing, produce a patch and comment #123737 re-test, look for similar no_op issues, push to blead 2.15 #123788 re-check patch, testing #123788 more testing, apply to blead 4.37 #124387 work on autoload on top of above #124387 testing, code archaeology, produce patches and comment #124387 review test results,

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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for August 2015 Mon, 21-Sep-2015 by Karen Pauley
    in: Grants

    Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 12 patches were applied. Hours Activity 0.83 #120826 re-work documentation patch #120826 re-test, apply to blead, close 4.99 #120903 first pass over documentation update #120903 more documentation, testing, comment with patch #120903 local edits, comment 0.53 #121200 check it's the same issue, merge tickets, comment 0.08 #123543 review and resolve 0.67 #123658 comment 0.17 #123867 comment 0.42 #123879

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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for May 2015 Sun, 12-Jul-2015 by Karen Pauley
    in: Grants

    Tony Cook writes: Approximately 37 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 2 patches were applied. bulk88's patch in adds support for building perl in parallel on Win32 using dmake's -P option. I've spent some time trying to improve it, but ended up running into limitations in dmake, in particular it seems to call child makefiles with -S preventing any parallel builds in the child. If a GNU make makefile

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  • Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for December 2014 Tue, 03-Feb-2015 by Karen Pauley
    in: Grants

    Tony Cook writes: Approximately 36 tickets were reviewed, and 5 patches were applied. I spent some time this month working on getting minitest working on Win32. In 2004 the Win32 makefiles were changed to use harness instead of TEST for minitest, presumably at some time after that Test::Harness was changed to load IO unconditionally, breaking minitest on Win32. So I switched minitest back to using TEST and then worked through

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  • SMOP Grant Final Report Thu, 19-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Project: Simple Meta Object Programming Grantee: Daniel Ruoso Grant Manager Jeff Horwitz Started: August, 2008 Finished: February, 2009 Follows the conclusion report, by Daniel Ruoso. Ok, I'll try to summarize what happened in the last 7 months We're actually in a point where it's not worth writing any other types in C. The amount of abstractions already demands us to write the built-in types in Perl 6, and there is

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  • Running Grants (2008-VII) Mon, 03-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Colin should start working later in the Winter. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: so far I've been busy with extending my TAP producer and adding unit tests. I've made it more compatible with Boost Lambda, allowing for example this: Array big numbers.grep big.each int sum big.reduce I'm currently busy with

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