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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 4c4852d..d324879 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ Other Build and C API Changes (Contributed by Ysj Ray and Victor Stinner in :issue:`7330`.) +.. _other-improvements-3.4: Other Improvements ------------------ @@ -1510,6 +1511,10 @@ Significant Optimizations * :func:`html.escape` is now 10x faster. (Contributed by Matt Bryant in :issue:`18020`.) +* On Windows, the native ``VirtualAlloc`` is now used instead of the CRT + ``malloc`` in ``obmalloc``. Artificial benchmarks show about a 3% memory + savings. + Deprecated ========== @@ -1683,6 +1688,10 @@ Changes in 'python' command behavior CPython interpreter is now off by default. It can be re-enabled using the ``-X showrefcount`` option. (Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`17323`.) +* The python command and most stdlib scripts (as well as :mod:`argparse`) now + output ``--version`` information to ``stdout`` instead of ``stderr`` (for + issue list see :ref:`other-improvements-3.4` above). + Changes in the Python API ------------------------- |