From: Alex Martelli <aleaxit@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:02:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document the performance fix to builtin_sum().
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1372
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd6664514fe37d7c2544f07fabdd2726f777b068;p=python

document the performance fix to builtin_sum().
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 08568dd518..f47113ccaf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Core and builtins
   starting with Py2.3 are guaranteed to be stable (the relative order of
   records with equal keys is unchanged).
 
+- Added a list.copysort() method that returns a copy of the sorted list
+  while leaving the original intact.
+
 - Added test whether wchar_t is signed or not. A signed wchar_t is not
   usable as internal unicode type base for Py_UNICODE since the
   unicode implementation assumes an unsigned type.
@@ -44,6 +47,9 @@ Core and builtins
 - obj.__contains__() now returns True/False instead of 1/0.  SF patch
   820195.
 
+- builtin_sum() now uses PyNumber_InPlaceAdd, fixing a previous
+  performance bug for sum(list_of_lists) and similar cases.
+
 Extension modules
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