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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2004-02-17 10:46:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2004-02-17 10:46:32 (GMT) |
| commit | 79b5cf112932dd2e3dd14bc9be3f45db88d7faa4 (patch) | |
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Mention the optimization of list.extend().
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index 4720eea..eb377be 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ yellow 5 use of the underlying system realloc(). List comprehensions also benefit. The amount of improvement varies between systems and shows the greatest improvement on systems with poor realloc() implementations. + \method{list.extend()} was also optimized and no longer converts its + argument into a temporary list prior to extending the base list. \item \function{list()}, \function{tuple()}, \function{map()}, \function{filter()}, and \function{zip()} now run several times |