Author: Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com> Branch: Changeset: r91569:ad3681ed2701 Date: 2017-06-07 20:03 +0300 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/ad3681ed2701/
Log: mention Gambit and actual struct speed improvement 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 @@ -10,11 +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. +We added native PyPy support to profile frames in the vmprof_ statistical +profiler. -The struct module functions `pack*` and `unpack*` are now much faster, -especially on raw buffers and bytearrays. +The `struct`` module functions `pack*` and `unpack*` are now much faster, +especially on raw buffers and bytearrays. Microbenchmarks show a 2x to 10x +speedup. Thanks to Gambit_ for sponsoring this work. This release adds (but disables by default) link-time optimization and `profile guided optimization`_ of the base interpreter, which may make @@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ .. _`help`: project-ideas.html .. _`options`: config/commandline.html#general-translation-options .. _`these benchmarks show`: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/03/async-http-benchmarks-on-pypy3.html +.. _Gambit: http://gambitresearch.com What is PyPy? ============= _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
