X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/08d7a6b24064e70aacf57f27e3375e0256afc24a..cdcef19ac3c5f2087c104d3b422ed1c0dd41a1f2:/pod/perl588delta.pod diff --git a/pod/perl588delta.pod b/pod/perl588delta.pod index e0ed647..b2203bc 100644 --- a/pod/perl588delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl588delta.pod @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +=encoding utf8 + =head1 NAME perl588delta - what is new for perl v5.8.8 @@ -1383,7 +1385,7 @@ happens at program exit, it may be skipped completely. =item * -Salvador Fandiño provided improvements to reduce the memory usage of C +Salvador Fandiño provided improvements to reduce the memory usage of C and to speed up some cases. =item * @@ -1472,7 +1474,7 @@ Trailing spaces are now trimmed from C<$!> and C<$^E>. =item * -Operations that require perl to read a process' list of groups, such as reads +Operations that require perl to read a process's list of groups, such as reads of C<$(> and C<$)>, now dynamically allocate memory rather than using a fixed sized array. The fixed size array could cause C stack exhaustion on systems configured to use large numbers of groups.