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Mention new-style exceptions

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2006-05-27 13:44:37 +00:00
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@ -1201,6 +1201,12 @@ Frame objects are also slightly smaller, which may improve cache locality
and reduce memory usage a bit. (Contributed by Neal Norwitz.)
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\item Python's built-in exceptions are now new-style classes, a change
that speeds up instantiation considerably. Exception handling in
Python 2.5 is therefore about 30\% faster than in 2.4.
(Contributed by Richard Jones and Sean Reifschneider at the
NeedForSpeed sprint.)
\item Importing now caches the paths tried, recording whether
they exist or not so that the interpreter makes fewer
\cfunction{open()} and \cfunction{stat()} calls on startup.