From 17ecd1d3846845c5abf1a51a77b6ba8f79b8b163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Heimes Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:10:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document speedup in whatsnew --- Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 50eef8432e..67550d5cfc 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -506,6 +506,17 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added: (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue"`18771`.) +* The interpreter starts about 30% faster. A couple of measures lead to the + speedup. The interpreter loads less modules on startup, e.g. the :mod:`re`, + :mod:`collections` and :mod:`locale` modules and their dependencies are no + longer imported by default. The marshal module has been improved to load + compiled Python code faster. + + (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, Christian Heimes and Victor Stinner in + :issue:`19219`, :issue:`19218`, :issue:`19209`, :issue:`19205` and + :issue:`9548`) + + Build and C API Changes ======================= -- 2.49.0