From 3e134a596069c8c6b9c7817258ed431c9f00aa5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:49:35 +0000 Subject: Use 'speed' instead of 'performance', because I agree with the argument at http://zestyping.livejournal.com/193260.html that 'erformance' really means something more general. --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index acb5bdb..b5a5236 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ In 2.5 the internal data structure has been customized for implementing sets, and as a result sets will use a third less memory and are somewhat faster. (Implemented by Raymond Hettinger.) -\item The performance of some Unicode operations, such as +\item The speed of some Unicode operations, such as finding substrings and character map decoding, has been improved. (Substring search improvements were added by Fredrik Lundh and Andrew Dalke at the NeedForSpeed sprint. Character map decoding was improved @@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ import hooks and now also works for packages stored in ZIP-format archives. included in the \file{Tools/pybench} directory. The pybench suite is an improvement on the commonly used \file{pystone.py} program because pybench provides a more detailed measurement of the interpreter's -performance. It times particular operations such as function calls, +speed. It times particular operations such as function calls, tuple slicing, method lookups, and numeric operations, instead of performing many different operations and reducing the result to a single number as \file{pystone.py} does. -- cgit v0.12