davem's perldelta entries for 5.25.9 so far

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index fd072d7..e6c4060 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -104,7 +104,12 @@ There may well be none in a stable release.
 
 =item *
 
-XXX
+A hash in boolean context is now sometimes faster, e.g.
+
+    if (!%h) { ... }
+
+This was already special-cased, but some cases were missed, and even the
+ones which weren't have been improved.
 
 =back