perldelta for Unicode property performance gains

schacon · Aug 26, 2012 · a3d5177 · a3d5177
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@@ -64,7 +64,10 @@ There may well be none in a stable release.
 
 =item *
 
-XXX
+Speed up in regular expression matching against Unicode properties.  The
+largest gain is for C<\X>, the Unicode "extended grapheme cluster".  The
+gain for it is about 35% - 40%.  Bracketed character classes, e.g.,
+C<[0-9\x{100}]> containing code points above 255 are also now faster.
 
 =back