Accidental Angel writes "ActivePerl release 5.8.8.816 is out, bringing the popular Windows distribution of Perl to parity with last month's 5.8.8 source release. Good news all around for speed freaks, too: According to the release notes, the Mac OS X version is apparently a Universal Binary, and there's beta-level support for 64-bit Windows, Linux, and SPARC Solaris. So if you've got a shiny new Intel Mac or want x86_64/64-bit SPARC support, they've got you covered."