[pypy-svn] r38013 - pypy/dist/pypy/doc/config

[cfbolz at codespeak.net]

Author: cfbolz
Date: Tue Feb  6 17:04:23 2007
New Revision: 38013

Added:
   pypy/dist/pypy/doc/config/objspace.std.withfastslice.txt
   pypy/dist/pypy/doc/config/objspace.std.withmultilist.txt
Log:
oops, add help files for the new options


Added: pypy/dist/pypy/doc/config/objspace.std.withfastslice.txt
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+A variant of multilists_ that makes list slicing copy the list lazily (that is
+only when the original list or the slice are mutated.
+
+
+.. _multilists: objspace.std.withmultilist.html

Added: pypy/dist/pypy/doc/config/objspace.std.withmultilist.txt
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+This enables "multilists". They are a different implementation of the Python
+``list`` type, indistinguishable for the normal user (when using multilists, the
+normal implementation is not used at all). When the multilist implementation is
+used, a list can change its internal representation over its lifetime. If a list
+contains only strings, for example, the strings are stored directly without
+their wrapper (which gives a memory benefit on large lists).
+
+Another special representation of lists that multilists support is the "range
+list", which is basically equivalent to what `objspace.std.withrangelist`_ does.
+
+.. _`objspace.std.withrangelist`: objspace.std.withrangelist.html