From: Andrew M. Kuchling Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 00:08:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention second encoding speedup X-Git-Tag: v2.5b1~258 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1985ff76ca757d0b6baf80725c405ffc91cc551a;p=python Mention second encoding speedup --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 7f8d8e6992..84340d49dc 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -1166,12 +1166,13 @@ In 2.5 the internal data structure has been customized for implementing sets, and as a result sets will use a third less memory and are somewhat faster. (Implemented by Raymond Hettinger.) -\item The speed of some Unicode operations, such as -finding substrings, string splitting, and character map decoding, has -been improved. (Substring search and splitting improvements were +\item The speed of some Unicode operations, such as finding +substrings, string splitting, and character map encoding and 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 +sprint. Character maps were improved by Walter D\"orwald and +Martin von~L\"owis.) +% Patch 1313939, 1359618 \item The \function{long(\var{str}, \var{base})} function is now faster on long digit strings because fewer intermediate results are