(Implemented by Raymond Hettinger.)
\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
-by Walter D\"orwald.)
+finding substrings, string splitting, and character map decoding, has
+been improved. (Substring search and splitting improvements were
+added by Fredrik Lundh and Andrew Dalke at the NeedForSpeed
+sprint. Character map decoding was improved by Walter D\"orwald.)
% Patch 1313939
\item The code generator's peephole optimizer now performs
and Richard Jones; committed at the NeedForSpeed sprint.)
% Patch 876206
+Frame objects are also slightly smaller, which may improve cache locality
+and reduce memory usage a bit. (Contributed by Neal Norwitz.)
+% Patch 1337051
+
\end{itemize}
The net result of the 2.5 optimizations is that Python 2.5 runs the