Branch: refs/heads/blead
Home: https://github.com/Perl/perl5
Commit: 6c8256ccf78cae28e6b4a8b2330a21ee29807296
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/6c8256ccf78cae28e6b4a8b2330a21ee29807296
Author: Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <[email protected]>
Date: 2026-03-16 (Mon, 16 Mar 2026)
Changed paths:
M pad.c
M pad.h
M regen/embed.pl
Log Message:
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Add padalloc_NO_SV flag for pad_alloc()
This flag requests that the pad specifically doesn't have a new SV
allocated into it, as the caller may wish to do something special with
it
Commit: 1c7eedee74225b05cc1fae2cc4b157a614001f64
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/1c7eedee74225b05cc1fae2cc4b157a614001f64
Author: Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <[email protected]>
Date: 2026-03-16 (Mon, 16 Mar 2026)
Changed paths:
M class.c
M pad.c
Log Message:
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Don't allocate pad SVs for fields
Since pp_methstart is going to replace the SVs in the pad anyway,
there's no point wasting memory holding junk SVs for non-live methods
when those SVs are never going to be seen.
Commit: d7d75569996ecf12f8d17feaae6520ed7df6fd98
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/d7d75569996ecf12f8d17feaae6520ed7df6fd98
Author: Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <[email protected]>
Date: 2026-03-16 (Mon, 16 Mar 2026)
Changed paths:
M regen/embed.pl
M regen/scope_types.pl
M scope.c
M scope_types.h
M sv.c
Log Message:
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Add SAVEt_PADSV_NULL, an optimised version of SAVEt_PADSV
The only current use-case of SAVEt_PADSV is invoked in class.c as part
of pp_methstart, to save the pad slot related to field SVs. This pad
slot is normally NULL until it is assigned a value by pp_methstart
itself. In this likely case, there is no point in save_padsv() storing
an extra savestack entry for this NULL pointer. Instead, we store an
optimised variant of it that sets the pad slot back to NULL on restore.
Compare: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/70c62a078bd2...d7d75569996e
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