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@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 507? Core language, builtins, and interpreter +- An optional object allocator has been included. This allocator is + optimized for Python objects and should be faster and use less memory + than the standard system allocator. It is not enabled by default + because of possible thread safety problems. The allocator is only + protected by the Python interpreter lock and it is possible that some + extension modules require a thread safe allocator. The object + allocator can be enabled by providing the "--with-pymalloc" option to + configure. + Standard library - pyexpat now detects the expat version if expat.h defines it. A |