From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:11:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add shrinking GVs and CVs to the TODO
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Add shrinking GVs and CVs to the TODO

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25448
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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 3e925e3..6fe7a67 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -345,6 +345,13 @@ C.
 
 Clean this up. Check everything in core works
 
+=head2 shrink C<GV>s, C<CV>s
+
+By removing unused elements and careful re-ordering, the structures for C<AV>s
+and C<HV>s have recently been shrunk considerably. It's probable that the same
+approach would find savings in C<GV>s and C<CV>s, if not all the other
+larger-than-C<PVMG> types.
+
 =head2 merge Perl_sv_2[inpu]v
 
 There's a lot of code shared between C<Perl_sv_2iv_flags>,