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Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week.

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December 26th, 2016 - January 1st, 2017

News and updates

An update on Perl 5.24.1 and 5.22.3 from Sawyer X.

Grant reports

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report #154, #155.

Issues

New issues

Resolved issues

Rejected issue

Perl #130046: Bleadperl v5.25.6-90-g3619505 breaks SMUELLER/XS-TCC-0.04.tar.gz .

Suggested patches

Discussion

Dave Mitchell shared his thoughts on (and initial implementation of) processing 8 bytes at a time in the regex engine. This would improve the speed of regular expression operations.

A discussion started regarding stack ref counting, which is a recurring issue.