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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2016-12-15 15:20:53 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2016-12-15 15:20:53 (GMT)
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Issue #28979: Fix What's New in Python 3.6, dict
The new dict implementation is not faster, but more compact. Patch written by Brendan Donegan. (grafted from 181453f9a0c424212f0f6ddca2b9065c15689d7c)
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ New library modules:
CPython implementation improvements:
* The :ref:`dict <typesmapping>` type has been reimplemented to use
- a :ref:`faster, more compact representation <whatsnew36-compactdict>`
+ a :ref:`more compact representation <whatsnew36-compactdict>`
similar to the `PyPy dict implementation`_. This resulted in dictionaries
using 20% to 25% less memory when compared to Python 3.5.