Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > On a side note, I'm strongly considering moving to Perl 5.12 > after public-inbox 1.7 is released. perl 5.12.4 will be a > decade old in a few months (however 5.12.5 was Nov 2012). > > It seems the various 5.12.x releases had fewer breaking bugfixes > than 5.10.0 => 5.10.1, so "use v5.12" should be fine. > > The main reason I want 5.12 is it enables strict implicitly, > reducing syscalls and startup time: > > strace -c perl -Mstrict -e exit # 208 syscalls > strace -c perl -Mv5.12 -e exit # 186 syscalls
Unfortunately, that makes no difference for anything which uses modules in the Perl stdlib or any 3rd-party modules. Even if we relied on v5.12 for strict, all external dependencies we load "use strict" and they remain Perl 5.8 (if not 5.6) compliant. > It also allows "delete local" and some other things, but That's nice, as is //a for ASCII-only matches. > I'm not yet sure about the "unicode_strings" feature bit... This requires much care on our part, unfortunately. -- unsubscribe: one-click, see List-Unsubscribe header archive: https://public-inbox.org/meta/
