From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:20:53 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Issue #28979: Fix What's New in Python 3.6, dict
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.1rc1~307
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8320193d106c63445e8186d9f8c9455ba931150d;p=python

Issue #28979: Fix What's New in Python 3.6, dict

The new dict implementation is not faster, but more compact.

Patch written by Brendan Donegan.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 0187f94c6f..84c452a049 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ New library modules:
 CPython implementation improvements:
 
 * The :ref:`dict <typesmapping>` type has been reimplemented to use
-  a :ref:`faster, more compact representation <whatsnew36-compactdict>`
+  a :ref:`more compact representation <whatsnew36-compactdict>`
   similar to the `PyPy dict implementation`_.  This resulted in dictionaries
   using 20% to 25% less memory when compared to Python 3.5.