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@@ -1143,6 +1143,11 @@ added by Fredrik Lundh and Andrew Dalke at the NeedForSpeed
sprint. Character map decoding was improved by Walter D\"orwald.)
% Patch 1313939
+\item The \module{struct} module now compiles structure format
+strings into an internal representation and caches this
+representation, yielding a 20\% speedup. (Contributed by Bob Ippolito
+at the NeedForSpeed sprint.)
+
\item The code generator's peephole optimizer now performs
simple constant folding in expressions. If you write something like
\code{a = 2+3}, the code generator will do the arithmetic and produce