Hi all, Just thought I'd let you know that I'm making progress on the 0.50 release. I'll probably have something to test drive this weekend. I'll release several trials, like I did with 0.40. The features whould all be in place by YAPC (June 26). I'll release to CPAN as soon as everything is stable, and all the ILSM authors have had a chance to test.
Major themes are: - Startup speed - Parse::RecDescent dependence elimination - Inline.pm dependence elimination for modules using Inline - Bug fixes - User requested enhancements I've already split Inline into Inline.pm (34 lines) and Inline::devel (1854 lines). The startup speed for a program using an Inline-based module has dropped from .45sec to .13sec on my machine. That's as fast as pure XS. The hope is that after 0.50, there will be no advantage to writing modules in XS, instead of Inline. Cheers, Brian
