From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:46:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention the optimization of list.extend().
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~806
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79b5cf112932dd2e3dd14bc9be3f45db88d7faa4;p=python

Mention the optimization of list.extend().
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
index 4720eeab99..eb377bec68 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ yellow 5
  use of the underlying system realloc().  List comprehensions also
  benefit.  The amount of improvement varies between systems and shows
  the greatest improvement on systems with poor realloc() implementations.
+ \method{list.extend()} was also optimized and no longer converts its
+ argument into a temporary list prior to extending the base list.
 
 \item \function{list()}, \function{tuple()}, \function{map()},
   \function{filter()}, and \function{zip()} now run several times