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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-01-10 15:40:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-01-10 15:40:25 (GMT) |
| commit | ab868311a5282f188a8cf831b021938420fee5c4 (patch) | |
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Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The
common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate
amount of loop unrolling.
This will especially help text I/O (we already register a 30% speedup on large
reads on the io-c branch).
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 0 Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The + common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate + amount of loop unrolling. + - Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e. collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by |