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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-11-13 22:58:45 (GMT)
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Add a note about the RLock acceleration
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@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ Multi-threading
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou)
+* Recursive locks (created with the :func:`threading.RLock` API) now benefit
+ from a C implementation which makes them as fast as regular locks, and
+ between 10x and 15x faster than their previous pure Python implementation.
+
+ (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`3001`.)
+
Optimizations
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