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authorRichard Jones <richard@commonground.com.au>2006-05-23 10:37:38 (GMT)
committerRichard Jones <richard@commonground.com.au>2006-05-23 10:37:38 (GMT)
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Merge from rjones-funccall branch.
Applied patch zombie-frames-2.diff from sf patch 876206 with updates for Python 2.5 and also modified to retain the free_list to avoid the 67% slow-down in pybench recursion test. 5% speed up in function call pybench.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 3?
Core and builtins
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+- Patch #876206: function call speedup by retaining allocated frame
+ objects.
+
- Bug #1462152: file() now checks more thoroughly for invalid mode
strings and removes a possible "U" before passing the mode to the
C library function.