[Python-checkins] r46457 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS

[georg.brandl]

Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sat May 27 14:30:25 2006
New Revision: 46457

Modified:
   python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
Log:
Add news item for new-style exception class branch merge.



Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
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--- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	Sat May 27 14:30:25 2006
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Builtin exceptions are now full-blown new-style classes instead of
+  instances pretending to be classes, which speeds up exception handling
+  by about 80% in comparison to 2.5a2.
+
 - Patch #1494554: Update unicodedata.numeric and unicode.isnumeric to
   Unicode 4.1.