errors. See also L</make HTML install work>, as the layout of installation tree
is needed to improve the cross-linking.
+The addition of C<Pod::Simple> and its related modules may make this task
+easier to complete.
+
=head2 Parallel testing
The core regression test suite is getting ever more comprehensive, which has
to review the ordering of the variables, to see how much alignment padding can
be removed.
-=head2 repeated code in filetest operators
-
-F<pp_sys.c> has a lot of partially repeated code in the filetest operators (for
-example C<pp_ftrowned>, C<pp_ftzero>, C<pp_ftsize>, and C<pp_ftmtime>,
-C<pp_ftatime>, C<pp_ftctime>). It would be good to investigate whether some
-of this could be refactored out into common static functions. A similar
-refactoring on F<utf8.c> saved about 1.5K of object code size.
-
=head2 bincompat functions
There are lots of functions which are retained for binary compatibility.