Revision history for Perl extension Devel::Arena.

0.23 Mon Feb 27 18:28:39 GMT 2006

Collect stats on magic

0.22 Sun Jan 8 11:30:11 GMT 2006 

      Count the files used by GPs, PVCVs and PVFMs
      Count the prototypes of PVFMs

0.21 Sat Jan 7 20:06:54 GMT 2006 

      Collect stats on the reference counts of GPs
      Use PTR2UV to avoid a cast warning on -Duse64bitint builds.
      Avoid "used only once" warning in the typeglob tests.

0.20 Fri Jan 6 21:25:39 GMT 2006 

      Enable prototypes in the XS.
      Collect stats on the frequency of CV prototypes.
      Update copyright years.
      Reverse the order of this Changes file.

0.19 Sun Jun 12 00:06:40 BST 2005 

      Collect stats on shared string scalars, and use these to estimate the
      effectiveness of the shared string table.

0.18 Sat Jun 11 21:19:02 BST 2005 

      Collect stats on the shared string table, and calculate whether it is
      actually saving memory.

0.17 Wed Jun 8 11:40:19 BST 2005 

      Jim Cromie sent a patch to store o store $^X, $0, @ARGV and @INC in the
      dump from write_stats_at_end

0.16 Tue May 31 11:33:06 BST 2005 

      Marcus Holland-Moritz discovered that Devel::Arena was leaking memory,
      and sent a patch. It turns out I hadn't read
      http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl/pod/perlxs.pod#Returning_SVs,AVsand_HVs_through_RETVAL
      (I just tried returning HV*, and found that the default typemaps seemed
      to handle it. Bad plan)

0.15 Mon May 23 20:03:10 BST 2005

Collect stats on GvNAME()

0.14 Sun May 22 00:31:46 BST 2005

Count the types in the GV's slots.

0.13 Sat May 21 00:28:47 BST 2005

Find PMOPs from magic when necessary (needed for 5.9).

0.12 Fri May 20 23:29:59 BST 2005

Collect lots of stats on GVs.

0.11 Fri May 20 22:18:44 BST 2005

Collect the HvNAMES, and count to see if any repeat.

0.10 Fri May 20 11:11:10 BST 2005

Collect stats for HvRITER and HvEITER

0.09 Mon May 16 22:45:12 BST 2005

Collect stats for SvSTASH(). Surprisingly few things have stashes.

0.08 Mon May 16 00:50:02 BST 2005

Collect stats for arrays with AvARYLEN

0.07 Sat May 14 18:56:08 BST 2005

Add write_stats_at_END

0.06 Fri May 13 20:48:37 BST 2005

Collect stats for the amount of magic on all types

0.05 Fri May 13 16:06:19 BST 2005

Collect stats for the amount of magic on HVs

0.04 Thu May 12 23:06:10 BST 2005

Now with better HV stats

0.03 Thu May 12 15:10:32 BST 2005

Now with counts of different SV types.

0.02 Wed May 11 23:26:11 BST 2005

Now with sizes of arenas.

0.01 Wed May 11 22:14:53 2005