Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 13
Sun, 09-Nov-2014 by
Karen Pauley
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_Dave Mitchell writes:_
The main things I worked on this month were:
* set up the beginnings of a basic performance/optimisation testing infrastructure under t/perf/
* investigated the performance of perl's string allocation and growing implementation, and came up with some suggested improvements (which I haven't yet done).
* fixed some issues with $#shared with threads::shared arrays
bq. 5:26 [perl #122950] Off-by-one when truncating *shared* array
0:20 fix compiler warnings
2:48 investigate floating-point performance regression
6:32 investigate sv_grow() algorithm
15:07 process p5p mailbox
0:26 review "Speeding up perl's OOP" patch
3:58 set up t/perf/
**34:37 Total (HH::MM)**
As of 2014/10/31: since the beginning of the grant:
bq. 54.7 weeks
747.8 total hours
13.7 average hours per week
There are 452 hours left on the grant
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