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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-02-08 20:25:47 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-02-08 20:25:47 (GMT) |
| commit | dde96e6dd6222e37746563930ff4bf3b1321f10e (patch) | |
| tree | 0725c9e936c433c73d231898c72e1e7573fc9e2c /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 9a164ac800aab859ebea10193f99642bbb42eed3 (diff) | |
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Clarify and correct description for ccbench and iobench.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index edc1f0d..f5c6e20 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -1305,9 +1305,10 @@ Other Changes and Fixes * Two benchmark scripts, :file:`iobench` and :file:`ccbench`, were added to the :file:`Tools` directory. :file:`iobench` measures the - speed of the built-in :class:`file` objects while performing various - operations, and :file:`ccbench` is a concurrency that performs - several tasks using a varying number of threads. + speed of built-in file I/O objects (as returned by :func:`open`) + while performing various operations, and :file:`ccbench` is a concurrency + benchmark that tries to measure computing throughput and thread switching + latency when performing several tasks using a varying number of threads. * When importing a module from a :file:`.pyc` or :file:`.pyo` file with an existing :file:`.py` counterpart, the :attr:`co_filename` |