Faster feature checks

Perform only a bit check instead of a much more expensive hash
lookup to test features.

For now I've just added a U32 to the cop structure to store the bits,
if we need more we could either add more bits directly, or make it a
pointer.

We don't have the immediate need for a pointer that warning do since
we don't dynamically add new features during compilation/runtime.

The changes to %^H are retained so that caller() can be used from perl
code to check the features enabled at a given caller's scope.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cop.h b/cop.h
index 9b462f239c..2d007b1605 100644
--- a/cop.h
+++ b/cop.h
@@ -413,6 +413,12 @@ struct cop {
     /* compile time state of %^H.  See the comment in op.c for how this is
        used to recreate a hash to return from caller.  */
     COPHH *	cop_hints_hash;
+    /* for now just a bitmask stored here.
+       If we get sufficient features this may become a pointer.
+       How these flags are stored is subject to change without
+       notice.  Use the macros to test for features.
+    */
+    U32		cop_features;
 };
 
 #ifdef USE_ITHREADS