From 79b5cf112932dd2e3dd14bc9be3f45db88d7faa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:46:32 +0000 Subject: Mention the optimization of list.extend(). --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index 4720eea..eb377be 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ yellow 5 use of the underlying system realloc(). List comprehensions also benefit. The amount of improvement varies between systems and shows the greatest improvement on systems with poor realloc() implementations. + \method{list.extend()} was also optimized and no longer converts its + argument into a temporary list prior to extending the base list. \item \function{list()}, \function{tuple()}, \function{map()}, \function{filter()}, and \function{zip()} now run several times -- cgit v0.12