Replying to myself because I want to add something interesting (to posterity) that I noticed today on Alioth: Perl (or OS) was upgraded from 5.14.* to 5.16.2.

Replying to myself because I want to add something interesting (to posterity) that I noticed today on Alioth: Perl (or OS) was upgraded from 5.14.* to 5.16.2. From cursory glance this gave all the Perl benchmarks a little boost. For eg. My fasta is about 3 secs quicker and the "interesting alternative" fasta dropped below 2.0 barrier (now timed at 1.96). However on the summary Perl slowed down a few points (here's the new bottom five on u32 single-core benchmark): Lua 31.09 PHP 40.49 Perl 54.90 Python 3 55.45 Ruby 1.9 62.40 I think the drop is because the Perl pldigits benchmark is now failing. The Math::GMP module can't be found. Pretty sure this wasn't a core module so perhaps a Perl dependency has been removed in the OS (Debian). PS. This maybe a temporary glitch so that dependency maybe restored soon. If not then I may amend pldigits benchmark accordingly. PPS. I see that Python pldigits is using gmpy and is working fine. This means that GMP is installed (as is gmpy Python library) so it's just the Math::GMP perl module that's missing :(