Author: Antonio Cuni <anto.c...@gmail.com> Branch: faster-rstruct Changeset: r80935:4dfc49434925 Date: 2015-11-25 11:19 +0100 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/4dfc49434925/
Log: pro-actively fix test_whatsnews diff --git a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst --- a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst @@ -22,3 +22,10 @@ Fix issue #2193. ``isinstance(..., int)`` => ``isinstance(..., numbers.Integral)`` to allow for alternate ``int``-like implementations (e.g., ``future.types.newint``) + +.. branch: faster-rstruct + +Improve the performace of struct.unpack, which now directly reads inside the +string buffer and directly casts the bytes to the appropriate type, when +allowed. Unpacking of floats and doubles is about 15 times faster now, while +for integer types it's up to ~50% faster for 64bit integers. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
