Changes from previous:
== 2.4 ==
+ enabled aggressive decommit option by default, significantly improve memory fragmentation
+ new ./configure flags for tcmalloc pagesize and tcmalloc allocation alignment.
+ Faster malloc/free, 5% on static library and about 10% on shared library. Mainly due to more efficient checking of malloc hooks.
+ Improved accuracy of stacktrace capturing in cpu profiler
== 2.3 ==
+ New experimental method for CPU profiling (only for Linux)
+ Most are fixes to pprof
+ Few other fixes, notably libunwind integration (selectable in configure step) and disabled on OSX & ppc64
== 2.2 ==
+ Support for mips/mips64/aarch64/ppc64-le
+ New method for capturing backtrace
+ More fixes
+ Fixes for Windows
+ Sources served by Google drive
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
These tools are for use by developers so that they can create more
robust applications. Especially of use to those developing
multi-threaded applications in C++ with templates. Includes TCMalloc,
heap-checker, heap-profiler, and CPU-profiler.
