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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 0 Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #4868: utf-8, utf-16 and latin1 decoding are now 2x to 4x faster. The + common cases are optimized thanks to a dedicated fast path and a moderate + amount of loop unrolling. + - Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e. collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by |