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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-01-08 21:17:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-01-08 21:17:16 (GMT) |
| commit | bcd5cbe01ef4306a82f85d0500f9a9f04113f804 (patch) | |
| tree | a9753988bcb56f924a12dac12dc09ad5e54b3119 /Misc | |
| parent | 5bad41eefc9f80298bb1abe00a5475be8b015c57 (diff) | |
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Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
(with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
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@@ -256,6 +256,10 @@ C-API Extension Modules ----------------- +- Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers + (with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization + on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner. + - Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle. - Issue #4738: Each zlib object now has a separate lock, allowing to compress |