Yves Orton

Its been a long time with no activity on this, so I am going to close the ticket. @khwilliamson if you object please reopen.

I have rebased this and modified it to show the hex and decimal values as a comment, and force pushed it. I also decided to "document" the unused bit with...

> and you'd have to look carefully (and know to look) to spot that SV_FLAG_BIT3_UNUSED is actually an unused bit. Its not a hill I want to die on, so...

I don't see any reason in the feedback to this PR to not merge it. @wollmers if you think the threshold should change to a lower number lets address that...

@pengvado if you have data that suggests we should use a different threshold or approach could you file it as a separate issue or PR please?

@Corion this is out of date and conflicts now, is it out of date or should we get it rebased and apply it?

@corion this ticket is stalled and in conflict. Do you have any intention to rebase it to blead? It seems like people are cautiously enthusiastic about it.

@nielsl I suspect you just need to change your code a bit so that SvPV() are changed to be one of the following: ``` char* SvPV_force (SV* sv, STRLEN len)...

@bram-perl said: > Anyway, briefly discussing this with @leonerd : > > * Boolean need copy on write > * firstclass bool values are cow-static strings That doesn't make sense...

I am closing this. The existing documentation is good enough I think. If we want to remove its experimental status we probably have to come up with a new experiment...