Release cperl-5.24.0-RC1

The first part for a modernized perl.
Signatures are now usable and faster than using no signatures.
Most calls are converted internally via fake_signatures.
tailcalls via goto to signatured subroutines are now proper
stackless tailcalls, reusing the padframes for all local variables.

No methods, classes nor roles yet.

The upstream 5.24 context improvements broke lexical $_ ingiven/when/smartmatch
we re-enabled that and fixed it. lexical $_ is critical for given/when blocks
as lexical enclosure is done implicitly there. And it's also much faster and better.

It's about 2x faster than 5.22

This release is the first with some modernized internal core modules.
See our FAQ at http://perl11.org/cperl/STATUS.html for the Test::More::skip
problem, and use our distroprefs to get patched modules automatically.

Updated Module::CoreList

STATUS.md

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 The name **cperl** stands for **a perl with classes, types, compiler
 support, continuation of perl5 development or just a company-friendly
-perl**, but currently it's only a better 5.22 based variant without
-classes.
+perl**, but currently it's only a better variant with types and signatures,
+and without classes.
 
 cperl started Feb. 2015 when `:const` was added, parrot was killed and
 it became clear that optimizing for fun is better than waiting for
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ sloppy types there neither.
 
 This is still much less than with a typical major perl5 release, and
 the patches are all provided in my distroprefs, so the upgrade is seemless.
+E.g. Test2 (the new Test::Simple) broke >15 modules without any patches.
 
 ![Memory usage: perl -e0](cperl-m0.png)
 

dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList.pm

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use vars qw/$VERSION %released %version %families %upstream
 	    %bug_tracker %deprecated %delta/;
 use Module::CoreList::TieHashDelta;
 use version;
-$VERSION = '5.20160607c';
+$VERSION = '5.20160608c';
 $VERSION =~ s/c$//;
 
 sub _released_order {   # Sort helper, to make '?' sort after everything else
@@ -12643,9 +12643,9 @@ for my $version ( sort { version_sort($a, $b) } keys %released ) {
             'Devel::NYTProf' 	     => '6.03',
             'Digest::MD5' 	     => '2.55_01',
             'B::Deparse'             => '1.37_02c',
-            'Test::Simple'           => '1.001014c',
-            'Test::More'             => '1.001014c',
-            'Test::Builder::Module'  => '1.001014c',
+            'Test::Simple'           => '1.401014c',
+            'Test::More'             => '1.401014c',
+            'Test::Builder::Module'  => '1.401014c',
             'File::Path'             => '3.12_01c',
             'Cwd'                    => '4.63c',
             'Pod::Simple'            => '4.30c',
@@ -12676,6 +12676,24 @@ for my $version ( sort { version_sort($a, $b) } keys %released ) {
             'Config::Perl::V'        => '0.26_01',
             'Cpanel::JSON::XS'       => '3.0215',
             'DB_File'                => '1.838',
+            'Devel::PPPort'          => '3.33_02',
+            'HTTP::Tiny'             => '0.058',
+            'IPC::SysV'              => '2.07',
+            'JSON::PP'               => '2.27400',
+            'Locale::Codes'          => '3.39',
+            'Math::BigInt'           => '1.999722',
+            'Math::BigInt::FastCalc' => '0.42',
+            'Math::BigRat'           => '0.260804',
+            'Module-Metadata'        => '1.000031-TRIAL',
+            'Net::Domain'            => '3.08',
+            'Pod::Checker'           => '1.73',
+            'Pod::Functions'         => '1.11',
+            'Pod::Usage'             => '1.69_01',
+            'Sys::Syslog'            => '0.34',
+            'Time::HiRes'            => '1.9733',
+            'Thread::Queue'          => '3.11',
+            'threads'                => '2.09',
+            'threads::shared'        => '1.52',
         },
         removed => {
         }

dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList/Utils.pm

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use vars qw[$VERSION %utilities];
 use Module::CoreList;
 use Module::CoreList::TieHashDelta;
 
-$VERSION = '5.20160607c';
+$VERSION = '5.20160608c';
 $VERSION =~ s/c$//;
 
 sub utilities {

pod/perlhist.pod

@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ the strings?).
  Ricardo   5.24.0-RC5   2016-May-04
  Ricardo   5.24.0       2016-May-09
 
- rurban    5.24.0c-RC1  2016-Jun-07     cperl 5.24
+ rurban    5.24.0c-RC1  2016-Jun-08     cperl 5.24
 
  Ricardo   5.25.0       2016-May-09     The 5.25 development track
  Sawyer X  5.25.1       2016-May-20

t/porting/customized.dat

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ File::Path cpan/File-Path/lib/File/Path.pm 623799e76e11a756ca5e18749d8bc1bdc3800
 File::Path cpan/File-Path/t/Path_win32.t 94b9276557ce7f80b91f6fd9bfa7a0cd9bf9683e
 File::Spec dist/PathTools/t/rel2abs_vs_symlink.t abbf1a890a1b6fefebc0c8a9e2849694ade89fa9
 JSON::PP cpan/JSON-PP/lib/JSON/PP.pm ea210ef037088b8ff77db8a0c149e09032a4beab
-Module::CoreList dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList.pm 717bab7dc86869319e0f1b1b9cf31d068976e265
-Module::CoreList dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList/Utils.pm f0be7387ddddc523a0cf23708e8a00efc527af82
+Module::CoreList dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList.pm 073076b4f571b61fc5c47f7efdd359ec6443a116
+Module::CoreList dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList/Utils.pm bc0573f680d3eab5f55fbee6fc1c81b7dd90a19d
 Module::Metadata cpan/Module-Metadata/t/lib/GeneratePackage.pm 502ffbe2609947430e6aa1a3df8064b3fef3e086
 Net::Domain cpan/libnet/lib/Net/Domain.pm 3ada368520d3179da8bc1b28ae61a99b4981b758
 Pod::Checker cpan/Pod-Checker/scripts/podchecker.PL 8ac11522808238b028b935fa94bf5ff319e68938