Author: Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com>
Branch:
Changeset: r91567:68056ea67737
Date: 2017-06-07 19:21 +0300
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/68056ea67737/
Log: add more highlights to the top-level of the release notice
(hopefully accurate?)
diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-v5.8.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-v5.8.0.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/release-v5.8.0.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/release-v5.8.0.rst
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@
This new PyPy2.7 release includes the upstream stdlib version 2.7.13, and
PyPy3.5 includes the upstream stdlib version 3.5.3.
+We can now profile native frames in the vmprof_ statistical profiler, even in
+JITted code.
+
+The struct module functions `pack*` and `unpack*` are now much faster,
+especially on raw buffers and bytearrays.
+
This release adds (but disables by default) link-time optimization and
`profile guided optimization`_ of the base interpreter, which may make
unjitted code run faster. To use these, translate with appropriate
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