From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:35:37 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: whatsnew: Windows uses VirtualAlloc, --version goes to stdout.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~242
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7c12432fe1db41ea31ec3af9610a5bc4c372c65c;p=python

whatsnew: Windows uses VirtualAlloc, --version goes to stdout.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 4c4852d064..d3248795ac 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ Other Build and C API Changes
   (Contributed by Ysj Ray and Victor Stinner in :issue:`7330`.)
 
 
+.. _other-improvements-3.4:
 
 Other Improvements
 ------------------
@@ -1510,6 +1511,10 @@ Significant Optimizations
 * :func:`html.escape` is now 10x faster.  (Contributed by Matt Bryant in
   :issue:`18020`.)
 
+* On Windows, the native ``VirtualAlloc`` is now used instead of the CRT
+  ``malloc`` in ``obmalloc``.  Artificial benchmarks show about a 3% memory
+  savings.
+
 
 Deprecated
 ==========
@@ -1683,6 +1688,10 @@ Changes in 'python' command behavior
   CPython interpreter is now off by default.  It can be re-enabled using the
   ``-X showrefcount`` option. (Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`17323`.)
 
+* The python command and most stdlib scripts (as well as :mod:`argparse`) now
+  output ``--version`` information to ``stdout`` instead of ``stderr`` (for
+  issue list see :ref:`other-improvements-3.4` above).
+
 
 Changes in the Python API
 -------------------------