[Python-checkins] r71144 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst

raymond.hettinger python-checkins at python.org
Sat Apr 4 14:46:57 CEST 2009


Author: raymond.hettinger
Date: Sat Apr  4 14:46:57 2009
New Revision: 71144

Log:
Eliminate a duplicate entry.

Modified:
   python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst	Sat Apr  4 14:46:57 2009
@@ -262,12 +262,6 @@
 
   (Contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc and Antoine Pitrou.)
 
-* A new configure flag, ``--with-computed-gotos``, enables a faster opcode
-  dispatch mechanism on compilers which support it. Speedups of up to 20%
-  have been observed, depending on the system and compiler.
-
-  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, :issue:`4753`.)
-
 * Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only untrackable objects
   are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce the size of
   collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on long-running
@@ -278,10 +272,11 @@
 * Enabling a configure option named ``--with-computed-gotos``
   on compilers that support it (notably: gcc, SunPro, icc), the bytecode
   evaluation loop is compiled with a new dispatch mechanism which gives
-  speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, on various benchmarks.
+  speedups of up to 20%, depending on the system, the compiler, and
+  the benchmark.
 
-  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou and Jeffrey Yasskin along with a number
-  of other participants, :issue:`4753`).
+  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou along with a number of other participants,
+  :issue:`4753`).
 
 * The decoding of UTF-8, UTF-16 and LATIN-1 is now two to four times
   faster.


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