Checking in changes prior to tagging of version 0.48. Changelog diff is:

[gitmo/Mouse.git] / lib / Mouse / XS.pod

diff --git a/lib/Mouse/XS.pod b/lib/Mouse/XS.pod
index b4b5ded..2e1fe98 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Mouse/XS.pod
+++ b/lib/Mouse/XS.pod
@@ -5,15 +5,21 @@ Mouse::XS - A Mouse guts in XS
 
 =head1 VERSION
 
-This document describes Mouse version 0.40_07
+This document describes Mouse version 0.48
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-Mouse has an optional XS implementation. This is automatically built
-and used if available.
+Mouse has an optional XS implementation, which is automatically built
+and used if available. According to benchmarks, this is about 2 times
+faster than Mouse::PurePerl.
 
 =head2 INSTALL
 
+The XS implementation are selected by default, but you can force it by
+passing the C<--xs> option to F<Makefile.PL>.
+
+    perl Makefile.PL --xs
+
 If you do not want to build the XS implementation, you can pass the C<--pp>
 option to F<Makefile.PL>.
 
@@ -23,8 +29,14 @@ option to F<Makefile.PL>.
 
 It can be used to enable the use of Mouse::PurePerl.
 
+=head1 DEPENDENCIES
+
+The XS implementation requires Perl 5.8.1 or later, and a C compiler.
+
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
+L<Mouse>
+
 L<Mouse::PurePerl>
 
 =cut