perldelta for regex optimizer handling above-Latin1

cdd87c1d4df41f9a54cccff996fa64d291adcee8

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 0d85410..afc7427 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -87,7 +87,10 @@ There may well be none in a stable release.
 
 =item *
 
-XXX
+Perl has an optimizer for regular expression patterns.  It analyzes the
+pattern to find things such as the minimum length a string has to be to
+match, etc.  It now better handles code points that are above the Latin1
+range.
 
 =back