Integrate perlio:

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 52a13e8..1d27d65 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1920,10 +1920,12 @@ external program.
 
 Several tests in the test suite check timing functions, such as
 sleep(), and see if they return in a reasonable amount of time.
-If your system is quite busy and doesn't return quickly enough,
-these tests might fail.  If possible, try running the tests again with
-the system under a lighter load.  These tests include F<t/op/alarm.t>,
-F<ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.t>, and F<lib/Benchmark.t>.
+If your system is quite busy and doesn't respond quickly enough,
+these tests might fail.  If possible, try running the tests again
+with the system under a lighter load.  These timing-sensitive
+and load-sensitive tests include F<t/op/alarm.t>,
+F<ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.t>, F<lib/Benchmark.t>,
+F<lib/Memoize/t/expmod_t.t>, and F<lib/Memoize/t/speed.t>.
 
 =item Out of memory
 
@@ -2279,6 +2281,13 @@ The following section is meant for people worrying about squeezing the
 Perl installation into minimal systems (for example when installing
 operating systems, or in really small filesystems).
 
+Leaving out as many extensions as possible is an obvious way:
+especially the Encode with its big conversion tables consumes a lot of
+space.  On the other hand, you cannot throw away everything, especially
+the Fcntl module is pretty essential.  If you need to do network
+programming, you'll appreciate the Socket module, and so forth: it all
+depends on what do you need to do.
+
 In the following we offer two different slimmed down installation
 recipes.  They are informative, not normative: the choice of files
 depends on what you need.