From: Martin v. Löwis Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:42:17 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Issue #14200: Add benchmark results to text flow. X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a2~276^2~8 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de157cc5bca49321345eea715d5837cd5e7ba1bb;p=python Issue #14200: Add benchmark results to text flow. --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 7799adee47..2fa452fff7 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -167,19 +167,16 @@ The storage of Unicode strings now depends on the highest codepoint in the strin * non-BMP strings (``U+10000-U+10FFFF``) use 4 bytes per codepoint. -The net effect is that for most applications, memory usage of string storage -should decrease significantly - especially compared to former wide unicode -builds - as, in many cases, strings will be pure ASCII even in international -contexts (because many strings store non-human language data, such as XML -fragments, HTTP headers, JSON-encoded data, etc.). We also hope that it -will, for the same reasons, increase CPU cache efficiency on non-trivial -applications. - -.. The memory usage of Python 3.3 is two to three times smaller than Python 3.2, - and a little bit better than Python 2.7, on a `Django benchmark - `_. - XXX The result should be moved in the PEP and a link to the PEP should - be added here. +The net effect is that for most applications, memory usage of string +storage should decrease significantly - especially compared to former +wide unicode builds - as, in many cases, strings will be pure ASCII +even in international contexts (because many strings store non-human +language data, such as XML fragments, HTTP headers, JSON-encoded data, +etc.). We also hope that it will, for the same reasons, increase CPU +cache efficiency on non-trivial applications. The memory usage of +Python 3.3 is two to three times smaller than Python 3.2, and a little +bit better than Python 2.7, on a Django benchmark (see the PEP for +details). PEP 3151: Reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy