On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:28:44PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: > >> Okay, so here are some hopefully more comparable numbers. I cvs up'd > >> both Python 1.6 (release16 tag) and Python 2.1 (release21-maint tag) > >> directories, > Thomas> Wrong tag; you're testing the 2.1.1 branch, not the 2.1 > Thomas> release. 2.1.1 contains at least one small performance > Thomas> optimization of which the impact has not been determined :) > I thought the whole idea of the dot dot releases was that they were supposed > to just be bug fixes. They do, it just depends on what you classify as a bug. This was a small bug in the implementation of function calls that made calling 'normal' C functions (without keyword arguments) from Python code a bit slower than necessary, too. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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