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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-01-02 17:34:35 (GMT)
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Issue #4738: finer-grained locking in the zlib module.
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+- Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress
+ or decompress several streams at once on multi-CPU systems. Also, the GIL
+ is now released when computing the CRC of a large buffer. Patch by ebfe.
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- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,