From: Andrew M. Kuchling Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:55:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Repair unfinished sentence X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~609 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a01ed0305885d57731c0be69c7c0b10200e48535;p=python Repair unfinished sentence --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 50ca2b3c2c..2835dae3b6 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -675,9 +675,11 @@ Optimizations * Type objects now have a cache of methods that can reduc the amount of work required to find the correct method implementation - for a particular class; the interpreter may not need to traverse base - classes - + for a particular class; once cached, the interpreter doesn't need to + traverse base classes to figure out the right method to call. + The cache is cleared if a base class or the class itself is modified, + so the cache should remain correct even in the face of Python's dynamic + nature. (Original optimization implemented by Armin Rigo, updated for Python 2.6 by Kevin Jacobs.)