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| author | Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca> | 2002-03-22 17:06:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca> | 2002-03-22 17:06:59 (GMT) |
| commit | 9d50d138e704489026e26f2b335a3d7b1054a3e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3aa66ef11b806858d430cc187dc3183fc093facf | |
| parent | 1b0e4fcc2915ea72f23ccdf50320811f36ae187c (diff) | |
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Add news about pymalloc being enabled.
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@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins +- The optional object allocator has been enabled by default. + - If you try to pickle an instance of a class that has __slots__ but doesn't define or override __getstate__, a TypeError is now raised. This is done by adding a bozo __getstate__ to the class that always @@ -78,6 +80,13 @@ Build C API +- Objects allocated using the new PyMalloc_New and PyMalloc_NewVar + functions will be allocated using pymalloc if it is enabled. These + objects should be deallocated using PyMalloc_Del. The PyObject_{New, + NewVar,NEW_VAR,Del,DEL} APIs have been changed to always use + PyMem_MALLOC and PyMem_FREE, even if pymalloc is enabled. The + PyCore_* family of APIs have been removed. + - The "u#" parser marker will now pass through Unicode object as-is without going through the buffer API. |