From 5bab5080850b68be5e1cd804c0cc5168d0e8882a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:58:45 +0000 Subject: Add a note about the RLock acceleration --- Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index a47ee99..a8b2fe4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ Multi-threading (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou) +* Recursive locks (created with the :func:`threading.RLock` API) now benefit + from a C implementation which makes them as fast as regular locks, and + between 10x and 15x faster than their previous pure Python implementation. + + (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`3001`.) + Optimizations ============= -- cgit v0.12