Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r46268:fa51adbaccd0 Date: 2011-08-04 09:31 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/fa51adbaccd0/
Log: merge heads diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-1.6.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-1.6.0.rst --- a/pypy/doc/release-1.6.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-1.6.0.rst @@ -2,4 +2,36 @@ PyPy 1.6 - faster than ever =========================== -We're pleased to announce 1.6 release of PyPy. +We're pleased to announce the 1.6 release of PyPy. This release brings a lot +of bugfixes and performance improvements over 1.5 as well as improved platform +support for Windows 32bit and OS X 64bit. This version fully supports +Python 2.7.1 (XXX .2?) as well as beta level support for C extensions. +You can download it here: + + http://pypy.org/download.html + +What is PyPy? +============= + +PyPy is a very compliant Python interpreter, almost a drop-in replacement for +CPython 2.7.1. It's fast (`pypy 1.5 and cpython 2.6.2`_ performance comparison) +due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler. + +Highlights +========== + +* Numerous bugfixes + +* Numerous performance improvements, overall giving a nice speedups + +* JitViewer, first official release (XXX) + +* multibyte encoding support (XXX which ones) + +* faster ctypes, now jitted + +* better handling of memory pressure from raw allocated blocks (arrays) + +* some rudimentary numpy support + +* JIT support for single floats _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
