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History

Raymond Hettinger ab517d2eac Fine tune the speed/space trade-off for overallocating small lists. The Py2.3 approach overallocated small lists by up to 8 elements. The last checkin would limited this to one but slowed down (by 20 to 30%) the creation of small lists between 3 to 8 elements. This tune-up balances the two, limiting overallocation to 3 elements (significantly reducing space consumption from Py2.3) and running faster than the previous checkin. The first part of the growth pattern (0, 4, 8, 16) neatly meshes with allocators that trigger data movement only when crossing a power of two boundary. Also, then even numbers mesh well with common data alignments.		2004-02-14 18:34:46 +00:00
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RPM	Patch #823259 : Update spec file:	2003-10-19 18:34:52 +00:00
ACKS	SF patch #875689 : >100k alloc wasted on startup	2004-02-08 18:54:37 +00:00
AIX-NOTES	The fix to use . was incorporated	2003-06-08 02:25:17 +00:00
BeOS-NOTES	Completely revamped BeOS notes, by Donn Cave (SF patch 411834).	2001-04-10 21:51:29 +00:00
BeOS-setup.py	Remove support for SunOS 4.	2004-01-17 14:19:44 +00:00
HISTORY	Fix a bunch of typos in documentation, docstrings and comments.	2003-10-20 14:01:56 +00:00
NEWS	Fine tune the speed/space trade-off for overallocating small lists.	2004-02-14 18:34:46 +00:00
NEWS.help	Updated (2.3 OK now)	2003-01-03 03:29:58 +00:00
PURIFY.README	Updated for Python 1.5, including my experiences with Purify on	1997-10-07 15:50:58 +00:00
Porting	Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .	2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
README	mention pymemcompat.h in Misc/README	2003-08-11 16:18:43 +00:00
RFD	Initial revision	1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
SpecialBuilds.txt	_Py_PrintReferenceAddresses(): also print the type name. In real use	2003-04-18 00:45:59 +00:00
cheatsheet	Update for new module and new builtin.	2003-07-12 23:55:57 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py	script that reports a fairly safe recursionlimit for a specific platform	2000-08-31 19:24:17 +00:00
gdbinit	A helper to dump info about the current frame,	2003-10-03 20:56:15 +00:00
indent.pro	Some new files...	1994-09-14 14:06:46 +00:00
pymemcompat.h	Fix grammatically inept comment.	2002-08-22 13:36:11 +00:00
python-mode.el	Sync with python-mode project. Adds two changes:	2003-12-18 21:53:33 +00:00
python.man	Remove -U from argument list.	2003-05-26 05:15:35 +00:00
setuid-prog.c	correct bogus instructions 'ccoment out' -> 'uncomment'	1998-09-10 20:18:09 +00:00
vgrindefs	Add 'yield' as a keyword	2001-08-06 17:42:53 +00:00

README

Python Misc subdirectory
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This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
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ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
BeOS-NOTES	Notes for building on BeOS
BeOS-setup.py	setup.py replacement for BeOS, see BeOS-NOTES
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
find_recursionlimit.py  Script to find a value for sys.maxrecursionlimit
gdbinit		Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS		News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
pymemcompat.h	Memory interface compatibility file.
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
README		The file you're reading now
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
SpecialBuilds.txt     Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)