B:C released 2008, perlfaq3 unchanged. So it's just me not getting it, arg!

Um, both.

Everything is decompilable, PAR et all still not compiling, B::C didn't change or improve much, Wx plays no part ... the rest is a FAQ on perlmonks

01 Feb 2012 http://search.cpan.org/dist/B-C/

2012-01-19 http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/history/HEAD:/cpan/perlfaq/lib/perlfaq3.pod

19 Jan 2012 http://search.cpan.org/dist/perlfaq/