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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 8c149a9..968b95a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -1201,6 +1201,12 @@ Frame objects are also slightly smaller, which may improve cache locality and reduce memory usage a bit. (Contributed by Neal Norwitz.) % Patch 1337051 +\item Python's built-in exceptions are now new-style classes, a change +that speeds up instantiation considerably. Exception handling in +Python 2.5 is therefore about 30\% faster than in 2.4. +(Contributed by Richard Jones and Sean Reifschneider at the +NeedForSpeed sprint.) + \item Importing now caches the paths tried, recording whether they exist or not so that the interpreter makes fewer \cfunction{open()} and \cfunction{stat()} calls on startup. |