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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2013-08-19 16:12:20 (GMT)
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Issue 18774: Update news and whatsnew for the set optimizations
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- Issue #18774: Remove last bits of GNU PTH thread code and thread_pth.h.
+- Issue #18771: Add optimization to set object lookups to reduce the cost
+ of hash collisions. The core idea is to inspect a second key/hash pair
+ for each cache line retrieved.
+
- Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor
registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead
of ignoring the error.