Add a note about the RLock acceleration

2009-11-13 22:58:45 +00:00 · 2009-11-13 22:58:45 +00:00 · 5bab508085
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@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ Multi-threading

  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou)

+* Recursive locks (created with the :func:`threading.RLock` API) now benefit
+  from a C implementation which makes them as fast as regular locks, and
+  between 10x and 15x faster than their previous pure Python implementation.
+
+  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`3001`.)
+

 Optimizations
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