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authorLarry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>2012-06-24 11:33:36 (GMT)
committerLarry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>2012-06-24 11:33:36 (GMT)
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Issue #15118: Change return value of os.uname() and os.times() from
plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes (structseq objects).
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Library
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+- Issue #15118: Change return value of os.uname() and os.times() from
+ plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes
+ (structseq objects).
+
- Speed up _decimal by another 10-15% by caching the thread local context
that was last accessed. In the pi benchmark (64-bit platform, prec=9),
_decimal is now only 1.5x slower than float.