Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r46609:5e46f5f36023 Date: 2011-08-18 18:21 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/5e46f5f36023/
Log: details and linkify diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-1.6.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-1.6.0.rst --- a/pypy/doc/release-1.6.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-1.6.0.rst @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ far). Windows 64 is not yet supported. The main topics of this release are speed and stability: on average on -our benchmark suite, PyPy 1.6 is between 20% and 30% faster than PyPy 1.5, +our benchmark suite, PyPy 1.6 is between **20% and 30%** faster than PyPy 1.5, which was already much faster than CPython on our set of benchmarks. The speed improvements have been made possible by optimizing many of the @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ the JIT warmup time, the optimizations performed by the JIT, the quality of the generated machine code and the implementation of our Python interpreter. +.. _`pypy 1.5 and cpython 2.6.2`: http://speed.pypy.org + Highlights ========== @@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ - better GC behavior when dealing with very large objects and arrays - - `fast ctypes`_: now calls to ctypes functions are seen and optimized + - **fast ctypes:** now calls to ctypes functions are seen and optimized by the JIT, and they are up to 60 times faster than PyPy 1.5 and 10 times faster than CPython @@ -60,8 +62,8 @@ * JitViewer: this is the first official release which includes the JitViewer, a web-based tool which helps you to see which parts of your Python code have - been compiled by the JIT, down until the assembler. XXX: publish a public - demo? + been compiled by the JIT, down until the assembler. The `jitviewer`_ 0.1 has + already been release and works well with PyPy 1.6. - The CPython extension module API has been improved and now supports many more extensions. For information on which one are supported, please refer to @@ -86,3 +88,8 @@ Hakan Ardo, Carl Friedrich Bolz, Laura Creighton, Antonio Cuni, Maciej Fijalkowski, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, Alex Gaynor, Armin Rigo and the PyPy team + +.. _`jitviewer`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/visualization-of-jitted-code.html +.. _`bug tracker`: https://bugs.pypy.org +.. _`compatibility wiki`: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/compatibility/wiki/Home + _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
