From d94adb73673d94530eb9cb302214e374640dc25c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:33:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a blurb about PEP 412 --- Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 38a9f35116..e3eddc4298 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -477,6 +477,18 @@ new, more precise information:: '' +PEP 412: Key-Sharing Dictionary +=============================== + +:pep:`412` - Key-Sharing Dictionary + PEP written and implemented by Mark Shannon. + +Dictionaries used for the storage of objects' attributes are now able to +share part of their internal storage between each other (namely, the part +which stores the keys and their respective hashes). This reduces the memory +consumption of programs creating many instances of non-builtin types. + + Using importlib as the Implementation of Import =============================================== :issue:`2377` - Replace __import__ w/ importlib.__import__ -- 2.40.0