From: Matt S Trout Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:05:49 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc 9b58b5 X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca700cb9191e01a972b39d43b45e918d0ff3929f;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git doc 9b58b5 --- diff --git a/pod/perl5132delta.pod b/pod/perl5132delta.pod index 8d89b25..9d550ae 100644 --- a/pod/perl5132delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5132delta.pod @@ -412,9 +412,12 @@ as C<< m/foo/s and $bar >> but will issue a warning. =head1 Platform Specific Notes -XXX Any changes specific to a particular platform. VMS and Win32 are the usual -stars here. It's probably best to group changes under the same section layout -as the main perldelta +=head2 Recent OpenBSDs now use perl's malloc + +OpenBSD > 3.7 has a new malloc implementation which is mmap based and as such +can release memory back to the OS; however for perl using this malloc causes +a substantial slowdown so we now default to using perl's malloc instead +(RT #75742) (9b58b5). =head1 Obituary