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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2010-04-17 21:56:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2010-04-17 21:56:23 +0100 |
| commit | da76b8593eec70dc736daf75a7180d2cb0bd0f1f (patch) | |
| tree | 542f6c14503b0eee3ab6effb7effe442f0d2d46a | |
| parent | 8f3964af7ae5331db258ef371ed6879d127851aa (diff) | |
| download | perl-da76b8593eec70dc736daf75a7180d2cb0bd0f1f.tar.gz | |
Note the revised signal dispatch and performance gain in perl5130delta.pod.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl5130delta.pod b/pod/perl5130delta.pod index 6fb003c6bd..42a5dc7460 100644 --- a/pod/perl5130delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5130delta.pod @@ -30,9 +30,12 @@ XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be: =head1 Core Enhancements -XXX New core language features go here. Summarise user-visible core language -enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go -here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section. +Signal dispatch has been moved from the runloop into control ops. This should +give a few percent speed increase, and eliminates almost all of the speed +penalty caused by the introduction of "safe signals" in 5.8.0. Signals should +still be dispatched within the same statement as they were previously - if +this is not the case, or it is possible to create uninterruptable loops, this +is a bug, and reports are encouraged of how to recreate such issues. =head1 New Platforms |