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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 22ecd27c49..7f65ef60c4 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -589,6 +589,15 @@ L</Modules and Pragmata>. =item * +RT #78266: The regex engine has been leaking memory when accessing +named captures that weren't matched as part of a regex ever since 5.10 +when they were introduced, e.g. this would consume over a hundred MB +of memory: + + perl -wle 'for (1..10_000_000) { if ("foo" =~ /(foo|(?<capture>bar))?/) { my $capture = $+{capture} } } system "ps -o rss $$"' + +=item * + A constant subroutine assigned to a glob whose name contains a null will no longer cause extra globs to pop into existence when the constant is referenced under its new name. |