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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2006-06-05 00:08:09 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2006-06-05 00:08:09 (GMT)
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Mention second encoding speedup
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@@ -1166,12 +1166,13 @@ In 2.5 the internal data structure has been customized for implementing sets,
and as a result sets will use a third less memory and are somewhat faster.
(Implemented by Raymond Hettinger.)
-\item The speed of some Unicode operations, such as
-finding substrings, string splitting, and character map decoding, has
-been improved. (Substring search and splitting improvements were
+\item The speed of some Unicode operations, such as finding
+substrings, string splitting, and character map encoding and decoding,
+has been improved. (Substring search and splitting improvements were
added by Fredrik Lundh and Andrew Dalke at the NeedForSpeed
-sprint. Character map decoding was improved by Walter D\"orwald.)
-% Patch 1313939
+sprint. Character maps were improved by Walter D\"orwald and
+Martin von~L\"owis.)
+% Patch 1313939, 1359618
\item The \function{long(\var{str}, \var{base})} function is now
faster on long digit strings because fewer intermediate results are