Tony write: In addition to the typical stream of small changes to review, Dave’s second AST rebuild of ExtUtils::ParseXS arrived and I spent several hours reviewing it. In response to #23918 I worked on adding numeric comparison APIs, which are complicated by overloading, NaNs, SVs dual IV NV...

   Paul writes: A mix of things this month, though I didn’t get much done in the final week because of preparations for my talk at LPW2025. A useful event though because a few ideas came out of discussions that I shall be looking at for core perl soon. 4 Mentoring preparation for BooK Eric on PPC 0014...

   Dave writes: Last month was relatively quiet. I worked on a couple of bugs and did some final updates to my branch which rewrites perlxs.pod which I intend to merge in the next few days. Summary: 10:33 GH #16197 re eval stack unwinding 4:47 GH #18669 dereferencing result of ternary operator skips...

   Dave writes: Last month was mostly spent doing a second big refactor of ExtUtils::ParseXS. My previous refactor converted the parser to assemble each XSUB into an Abstract Syntax Tree and only then emit the C code for it This new work extends that so that the whole XS file is now one big AST, and...