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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 50ca2b3..2835dae 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -675,9 +675,11 @@ Optimizations * Type objects now have a cache of methods that can reduc the amount of work required to find the correct method implementation - for a particular class; the interpreter may not need to traverse base - classes - + for a particular class; once cached, the interpreter doesn't need to + traverse base classes to figure out the right method to call. + The cache is cleared if a base class or the class itself is modified, + so the cache should remain correct even in the face of Python's dynamic + nature. (Original optimization implemented by Armin Rigo, updated for Python 2.6 by Kevin Jacobs.) |