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On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 12:33:36AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> The tip of that branch are a bunch of "TODO perldelta: *" commits
> where I don't know what should be said, but think that something
> should be clarified/fixed by others who actually know what these
> entries are referring to.
I've made some further changes to your TODO bits and some of the previous
fixes for them with v5.26.0-RC1-49-g8928e7d
> Several other ops may now also be faster in boolean context.
>
> + Could we be a bit less vague here? Arithmetic ops? stuff like
> + print, what?
I've removed that sentence because it's essentially wrong.
> Speed up C<AV> and C<HV> clearing/undeffing.
>
> + Does this mean that `undef %h` and `undef @a` are faster, or is it
> + for some reason only the internal XS stuff? If it's the former
> + (which I assume) let's use the more readable forms someone not
> + deep into XS will know about.
I've removed your fix for this because that relatively small speedup
was dwarved by a later change to list assignment that was getting 33%
speedups. Instead I've expanded the following section:
> =item *
>
> Better optimise array and hash assignment
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