In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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commit 54a4d58122fe7419254a10dc01459c2956767a30
Author: Karl Williamson <k...@cpan.org>
Date: Mon Feb 19 22:12:49 2018 -0700
perldelta for performance enhancements
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldelta.pod | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index d1aa6bd3f4..e7260c7036 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -143,7 +143,15 @@ There may well be none in a stable release.
=item *
-XXX
+Various optimizations have been applied to matching regular expression
+patterns, so under the right circumstances, significant performance
+gains may be noticed. But in an application with many varied patterns,
+little overall improvement likely will be seen.
+
+=item *
+
+Other optimizations have been applied to UTF-8 handling, but these are
+not typically a major factor in most applications.
=back
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