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| author | Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> | 2010-07-25 19:03:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> | 2010-07-25 19:03:29 +0200 |
| commit | 844fcee5cda65ac773b3d0e73dbcd39ed06b38d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a1b8726a23cacbfc3388fa848feb64723352e28 /pod | |
| parent | 65bfe90c4b4ea5706a50067179e60d4e8de6807a (diff) | |
| download | perl-844fcee5cda65ac773b3d0e73dbcd39ed06b38d8.tar.gz | |
perldelta up to 65bfe90c
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perl5134delta.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl5134delta.pod b/pod/perl5134delta.pod index ae8c4528c6..a5baed6a03 100644 --- a/pod/perl5134delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5134delta.pod @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ =encoding utf8 =for rafl -changelogged up to commit 34edcf0c +changelogged up to commit 65bfe90c * PERL_STATIC_INLINE might want to be mentioned =head1 NAME @@ -352,6 +352,14 @@ C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, explicitly marking them as incompatible with each other. Maintainance releases of stable perl's will continue to make no intentionally incompatible changes. +=item Make extending the peephole optimizer easier + +As of version 5.8, extension authors were allowed to replace perl's peephole +optimizer function. However, this was B<very> hard to do, as there was no way to +add new optimizations without having to copy large parts of perl's original +optimizer. This problem is now solved by a rework of the optimizer extension +API. See L<perlguts/"Compile pass 3: peephole optimization"> for details. + =back =head1 Selected Bug Fixes |