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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2016-04-24 20:33:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2016-04-24 20:33:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 8153ac8f00efb5efb486805234887d49b22755ac (patch) | |
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Issue #26249: Mention PyMem_Malloc() change in What's New in Python 3.6 in the
Optimizations section.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index 87854c8..99223af 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -388,6 +388,13 @@ Optimizations * Optimize ``bytes.replace(b'', b'.')`` and ``bytearray.replace(b'', b'.')``: up to 80% faster. (Contributed by Josh Snider in :issue:`26574`). +* Allocator functions of the :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` domain + (:c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM`) now use the :ref:`pymalloc memory allocator + <pymalloc>` instead of :c:func:`malloc` function of the C library. The + pymalloc allocator is optimized for objects smaller or equal to 512 bytes + with a short lifetime, and use :c:func:`malloc` for larger memory blocks. + (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`26249`). + Build and C API Changes ======================= |