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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-09-16 22:10:56 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-09-16 22:10:56 (GMT)
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Issue #6713: Improve performance of str(n) and repr(n) for integers n
(up to 3.1 times faster in tests), by special-casing base 10 in _PyLong_Format. (Backport of r74851 from py3k.)
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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
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- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"