[perl #125569] [PATCH] modify behavior of SCALAR in *{"_<$filename"}dbg glob for mem saving

On Thu Jan 28 15:01:20 2016, perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:
> * bulk88 via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2015-08-15T22:04:29]
> > Bump.
> 
> Bump. :-)
> 
> I've had this ticket flagged for a long time.  I think it's reasonable
> for us
> to be cautious in the face of no expertise, but right now it seems
> like "we're
> not sure what's up, so we're doing nothing."
> 
> I wonder whether we're not better off trying it and seeing, lest this
> patch
> languish forever.  Alternately, would someone like to work on becoming
> an
> expert on this area? :)

Saving up to 24K of memory (and usually less) when loading all of Test::Harness, Test::More, CPAN, CPAN::Meta, ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Pod::Perldoc *and* their dependents doesn't seem worth the changes downstream code may need to make.

bulk88 provided a Devel::Profit patch*, but what else does it break?

Tony

* which the maintainer can't use as is, since it breaks the code on non-Win32

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• [perl #125569] [PATCH] modify behavior of SCALAR in *{"_<$filename"}dbg glob for mem saving by bulk88 via RT
• Re: [perl #125569] [PATCH] modify behavior of SCALAR in*{"_<$filename"} dbg glob for mem saving by Ricardo Signes
• [perl #125569] [PATCH] modify behavior of SCALAR in *{"_<$filename"}dbg glob for mem saving by Tony Cook via RT
• [perl #125569] [PATCH] modify behavior of SCALAR in *{"_<$filename"}dbg glob for mem saving by bulk88 via RT
• Re: [perl #125569] [PATCH] modify behavior of SCALAR in*{"_<$filename"} dbg glob for mem saving by Elizabeth Mattijsen
• Re: [perl #125569] [PATCH] modify behavior of SCALAR in*{"_<$filename"} dbg glob for mem saving by Aristotle Pagaltzis