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authorCraig A. Berry <craigberry@mac.com>2014-04-17 09:54:53 -0500
committerCraig A. Berry <craigberry@mac.com>2014-04-17 09:54:53 -0500
commit4bb8f055a7c40cefb6af8f329c3d56d25224e038 (patch)
tree9a2b1523b7c41f7e955f6d304e46bfed7cc0ce44
parent68659711dbd73fcf02340a35b5fe8666c1fce2f8 (diff)
downloadperl-4bb8f055a7c40cefb6af8f329c3d56d25224e038.tar.gz
perldelta for b51c3e77db (VMS glob changes).
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index a32fd7e87c..fe33e901b1 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
=for todo
-b51c3e77db (craigb) - Reduce excessive stat calls in glob on VMS
869747506f/00051dd553 (merijn) - gcc 4.9 by default does some optimizations that break perl / -fwrapv is broken prior to gcc-4.3 (#121505)
fc6f6f37f8 (craigb) - Make perlbug encoding-agnostic in handling prepared reports.
7e6b9e3a66 (craigb) - Attempt to satisfy CRLF expectations in perlbug on Windows.
@@ -348,9 +347,12 @@ source tree.
=over 4
-=item XXX-some-platform
+=item VMS
-XXX
+On VMS only, a check for glob metacharacters in a path returned by the C<glob>
+operator has been replaced with a check for VMS wildcard characters. This
+saves a significant number of unnecessary C<lstat()> calls such that some
+simple glob operations become 60-80% faster.
=back