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@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ What's New in Python 3.1 alpha 2? Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base + 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance + reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add + --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the + default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about + the internal format. + - Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2. |