Things we think the Python community will like.
Assorted tweaks:
- Frame optimizations
Made Gzip readline 30-40% faster (BobIppolito)
Speed up Unicode operations (AndrewDalke, FredrikLundh). Most notable, repeat and most search operations (find, index, count, in) are now a lot faster. Current stringbench results:
str(ms) uni(ms) % comment ----------------------------------------------------- 1648.95 2940.04 56.1 TOTAL 2.5a2 1644.42 2795.33 58.8 TOTAL current (repeat tweaks) 1643.69 1652.60 99.5 TOTAL optimized match macro 1644.99 969.33 169.7 TOTAL optimized in