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[RELEASED] Python 3.1 final

Posted Jun 30, 2009 9:44 UTC (Tue) by zuki (subscriber, #41808)
In reply to: [RELEASED] Python 3.1 final by quartz
Parent article: [RELEASED] Python 3.1 final

From the linked what's new document:
"In Python 3.1, the I/O library has been entirely rewritten in C and is 2 to 20 times faster depending on the task at hand."

There also are some interesting improvements in the dispatch loop - 20% speedup in a micro benchmark or so.

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