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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-11-10 18:46:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-11-10 18:46:01 (GMT) |
| commit | 434736a1a621f785858e58efe682320178de7993 (patch) | |
| tree | cbd08641338319c3c8d6c85d3680ee6c8dad279a /Misc | |
| parent | 0e31201848f45db86bea6bf5bd196e2db88fbfbe (diff) | |
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Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
default when instantiating a `Threading.RLock` object. This makes
recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,
they were slower by 10x to 15x).
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@@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ C-API Library ------- +- Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by + default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes + recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously, + they were slower by 10x to 15x). + - Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using `_thread.start_new_thread()`). |