Karl Williamson

Workaround XS that wants non-STRLEN for PV len

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This should fix GH #19983. Some of the macros that extract a PV from an SV also will set a 'len' parameter to how many bytes long it is. The...

RMG: Add step for deprecation/experimental resolution

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At the beginning of the development cycle, the project should look ahead at what to do about experimental/deprecated features. Some are coming due this cycle, so email should be sent...

Add assert to SvPV-ish macros

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This is to see how many CPAN modules call these with a differently sized 'len' than the specified 'STRLEN'. See https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19983

Use per-word calcs in utf8_length()

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This commit changes utf8_length to read the input a word at a time. The current method of looking per character is retained for shorter strings. The per-word method yields significant...

hopping chars now consumes 1 hop count no matter the starting position nor direction

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Previously, that was the case for backwards hops, but if a forward hop started at a continuation byte, each such byte in the current character consumed one hop count.

This changes utf8_to_bytes() to do a per-word initial scan to see if the source is actually downgradable, before starting the conversion. This is significantly faster than the current per-character scan....

Update STMT_START..END guidance

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My mental model of how the C preprocessor did things was flawed. This commit makes things clearer. It needs some polishing