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

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January 23rd-29th

News and updates

Grant reports

Tony Cook TPF Grant December 2016 report.

Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report 159.

Issues

New issues

Resolved issues

Suggested patches

John Lightsey provided a patch in Perl #130635 to fix a stack overflow problem in Storable.

Discussion

Craig Berry raised (test randomization (Re: slowness of ext/XS-APItest/t/handy.t,utf8.t)) into discussion the topic of randomization and determinism in tests.

Jim Keenen raised the problem of Scalar-List-Util being out of sync and suggests

Dave Mitchell asked about the status of ExtUtils::Constant.

Hugo van der Sanden suggests optimizing the run loop a tad and provided a branch with the patch for review: hv/runloop .

In an interesting thread, Yves Orton asked: Should we consider locked hashes a failed experiment? Yves also asks this question on Blogs.Perl.org.