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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2009-05-04 00:16:49 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2009-05-04 00:16:49 (GMT)
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Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
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@@ -905,6 +905,9 @@ C-API
Extension Modules
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+- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
+ GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
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- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
implementations or external openssl library).