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On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 11:03 AM Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > On 2023-02-27 2:50 a.m., demerphq wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 17:06, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > The branch containing the first stage of my "make the stack > ref-counted" > > work is nearly ready for merging. In a default build, the core is > mostly > > unchanged: only when built with -DPERL_RC_STACK does it behave > > differently. It needs testing on Windows. I need to decide whether to > > merge soon or wait until after 5.38. > > > > I think it has to wait till 5.38, at least as far as normal policy goes. > I guess > > it depends on whether we consider this a contentious code-change, but > given its > > scale it seems like we should hold off. (It brings me no joy to say this > BTW, id > > be more than happy if my understanding was incorrect.) > > To be completely clear, in a default build, should all known XS also > compile and > run properly without alterations? Or does the "mostly unchanged" exclude > some > things that XS may be sensitive to? > I would personally expect xsubpp to need updating to avoid the performance degradation (and for PPCODE xsubs I expect they will need updating to not have the degradation), but it should be functional without that. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next