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

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November 13th-20th

News and Updates

Perl 5.27.6 has been released!

Karl Williamson updates about his branch for word-at-a-time searches for UTF-8 invariants. His branch provides up to 800% improvement in speed on 64 bit.

Grant Reports

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 September report.

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 weekly report #184.

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 weekly report #185.

Zefram 2017 Week 44 report.

Zefram 2017 Week 45 report.

Zefram 2017 Week 46 report.

Issues

New Issues

Resolved Issues

Rejected Issues

Suggested Patches

Steve Hay provided a patch in Perl #123113 to add optional GCC-only support for using long doubles on Win32.

Steve also provided a patch in Perl #125827 to PathTools to not require() modules in subs likely to be in loops.

Hauke D. provided a patch in Perl #132475 to handle LAYER argument in Tie::StdHandle::BINMODE .

Discussion

Paul Evans and Zefram discuss (Signature parsing compiler functions) an API for parsing signatures.

Zefram has a suggestion of utilizing the smart match syntax to support type checks in signatures.