Issue #26249: Mention PyMem_Malloc() change in What's New in Python 3.6 in the

Optimizations section.

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 87854c8a9b0a6584a4d03777d36bf67b33c53af9..99223af31db596fe481e710de19713f1dd04df12 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -388,6 +388,13 @@ Optimizations
 * Optimize ``bytes.replace(b'', b'.')`` and ``bytearray.replace(b'', b'.')``:
   up to 80% faster. (Contributed by Josh Snider in :issue:`26574`).
 
+* Allocator functions of the :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` domain
+  (:c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM`) now use the :ref:`pymalloc memory allocator
+  <pymalloc>` instead of :c:func:`malloc` function of the C library. The
+  pymalloc allocator is optimized for objects smaller or equal to 512 bytes
+  with a short lifetime, and use :c:func:`malloc` for larger memory blocks.
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`26249`).
+
 
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