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. I didn't spend all that many hours during August on perl work. I spent most of my time looking at a bug related to restoring of captures within regex repeats. During the course of that, I took the opportunity to simplify and cleanup

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 44 tickets were reviewed, and 4 patches were applied. 1.23 #p5p discussion with khw on shared hash problem 4.73 #132158 testing, debugging, work on a fix, more testing #132158 consider other fixes, testing, comment with patches 1.60

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. I did very few hours last month. This was partly due to delays in getting my grant extended, and partly because I was busy with other things. SUMMARY: 2:00 RT #133352 Ancient Regex Regression 0:30 RT #133368 index optimisation in when

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the latest report. Jonathan writes: "A further grant extension will enable me to continue my work on Perl 6 performance and reliability. The 200 hours I just completed have seen both optimizations

This report describes what I have accomplished in the latest 200 hours of my Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. A new MoarVM specializer plugin mechanism The most significant new optimizations developed in this grant period center around a new mechanism for helping the MoarVM specializer, which optimizes and JIT-compiles hot code, to understand a wider range of Perl 6 constructs. I used this mechanism to speed up: Private

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 333 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: June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 Before

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. I spent the last month mainly working on: blocking issues for the 5.28.0 release. BBC tickets ASAN-related tickets SUMMARY: 2:22 RT #133204 Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow 15:29 RT #133270 Blead Breaks CPAN: HMBRAND/DBD-CSV-0.53.tgz 5:03 RT #133271 Blead Breaks

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: May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 Before

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 34 tickets were reviewed. 8.10 #122112 re-work an old solution #122112 testing and fail, think about other solutions #122112 work up a fix, testing, work on a regression test #122112 finish regression test, testing, polish, comment with

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. SUMMARY: 5:00 RT #132863 BBC LWP-Protocol-https-6.07 0:30 RT #133169 pack treats non hex-digits with the "H*" template 1:30 RT #133184 Threaded builds failing on Linux 4.16.5 or higher 2:00 RT #133194: regcomp: heap-buffer-overflow read 3:00 RT #133220 perl_parse