Log Message:
(lang/rakudo) Updated 2023.11 to 2024.01

See:
https://rakudo.org/post/announce-rakudo-release-2024.01

Rakudo compiler, Release #168 (2024.01)

2024-01-16

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce
the January 2024 release of Rakudo #168. Rakudo is an implementation
of the Raku1 language.

The source tarball for this release is available from
https://rakudo.org/files/rakudo. Pre-compiled archives will be
available shortly.

New in 2024.01:

    Improvements:
        Make dd show types better [57bda882]

        Make use of native unsigned integers better performant [c0340fc7]

        Add dispatchers for handling unassigned elements in hashes and
        arrays resulting in better performance in some specific idioms
        [0e2e20a4] [fa4cc823][1ef51856][70d53fb6][79728078]

    Additions:

        New nqp::syscall/register/delegate/track/guard ops as
        shortcuts to otherwise very verbose nqp::dispatch arguments
        [a3645497][2d8839e1]

        Document dispatchers [9b179a55][690c6c01][93f2a8aa][bafa5ad4]
        [f0673003][2aa796fd][ac5c89bb][6ba5ee53][1721f00b][5394496a][5dd90860]
        [e0952486][9a07a6c8][87bcbe6a][b356bbfd][f651e9d6][2e9c0cc1][26ab5c21]
        [4dc737c3][62a67452][93c31ce9][e002a7a8][7456e6dc][b94e98fc][6819b9de]
        [bb384c41][fd5e4da6][f2b09f7e][6f75ed00][808885d7][fc670bb8][8bf824a5]
        [2cfa0768][d6d7d154][45b1025a][6b6548d8][d327d14a][120a06c7][95770d31]
        [f13ba1d0][12db03a5][11734d4f]

    Fixes:
        Handle .extension("foo") on IOs without extension as if \ 
:parts(0) is specified [8cda0bc6]

    Deprecations:
        Deprecate many Distribution::Resource methods \ 
[c83eccfa][cd231798][4d797bbb] [7ac9aeab]
        Deprecate the use of PERL6LIB [47fdc20d]

    Internal:
        Show :auth:ver:api of module loaded (for RAKUDO_MODULE_DEBUG) [91a062d2] \ 
[fcf22b4f]
        Prevent possible recursion in archetypes dispatcher [6b61de2c]
        Move backend tests from runtime to system build time [69b8a24a]
        Use new nqp::syscall/register/delegate ops [becb682e]
        nqp::syscall is Moar specific, so protect it [b8aaffd6]
        Use new nqp::track / nqp::guard ops [13439539]
        Ensure that nqp::track/guard also have their args unboxed [5d377a12]
        Use nqp::track/guard in NativeCall dispatchers [6008a00e]

        Document and/or streamline dispatchers and related
        [9b179a55][690c6c01]
        [93f2a8aa][bafa5ad4][f0673003][2aa796fd][ac5c89bb][6ba5ee53][1721f00b]
        [5394496a][5dd90860][e0952486][9a07a6c8][87bcbe6a][0e2e20a4][b356bbfd]
        [fa4cc823][1ef51856][70d53fb6][79728078][f651e9d6][2e9c0cc1][26ab5c21]
        [4dc737c3][62a67452][93c31ce9][e002a7a8][7456e6dc][b94e98fc][6819b9de]
        [bb384c41][fd5e4da6][f2b09f7e][6f75ed00][808885d7][fc670bb8][8bf824a5]
        [2cfa0768][d6d7d154][45b1025a][6b6548d8][d327d14a][120a06c7][95770d31]
        [f13ba1d0][12db03a5][11734d4f]

    RakuAST Development:

        some work was done on RakuAST development, but the number of
        passing spectest files did not increase this round.

        [1ecff5c5][3b9de763][35484381][54ee127b][5268106d][000ac084][94e58e05]
        [3c7057c0][c389de26][e1fef673][4bfde24c][91c157d2][3f6fff74][bef0a9bf]
        [3c1ad110][4b6f77f4][f5e9b2dc][bdfea0b0][d992bf6a][7ea760a0]