> > Their head is rolling in 5.10. In the 5.8 series we can't. > > Is there anything stopping them coming out of blead today? Backward compat. We declared them deprecated at 5.8.0. Therefore they can't be gone at 5.8.1. > That would let us see what perlbench (and the vapourware reliable benchmark) > thinks the speedup is. The patch is there, somewhere, blead's got it, anyone is free to apply it to maint. > Nicholas Clark -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen