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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex index 878838f..9127ffe 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex @@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ return any Python object. There are also corresponding changes of interest to C programmers; there's a new slot \code{tp_richcmp} in type objects and an API for performing a given rich comparison. I won't cover the C API here, but -will refer you to PEP 207, or the documentation for Python's C API, -for the full list of related functions. +will refer you to PEP 207, or to 2.1's C API documentation, for the +full list of related functions. \begin{seealso} @@ -605,6 +605,16 @@ be underestimates. Some of the more notable changes are: \begin{itemize} + +\item A specialized object allocator is now optionally available, that +should be faster than the system \function{malloc()} and have less +memory overhead. The allocator uses C's \function{malloc()} function +to get large pools of memory, and then fulfills smaller memory +requests from these pools. It can be enabled by providing the +"--with-pymalloc" option to the \filename{configure} script; see +\filename{Objects/obmalloc.c} for the implementation details. +Contributed by Vladimir Marangozov. + \item The speed of line-oriented file I/O has been improved because people often complain about its lack of speed, and because it's often been used as a na\"ive benchmark. The \method{readline()} method of |