Author: mattip <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r83791:ede770bcad43 Date: 2016-04-20 21:07 +0300 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/ede770bcad43/
Log: expand header of release note diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-5.1.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-5.1.0.rst --- a/pypy/doc/release-5.1.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-5.1.0.rst @@ -3,10 +3,17 @@ ======== We have released PyPy 5.1, about a month after PyPy 5.0. -We encourage all users of PyPy to update to this version. Apart from the usual -bug fixes, there is an ongoing effort to improve the warmup time and memory -usage of JIT-related metadata, and we now fully support the IBM s390x -architecture. We also updated cffi_ to 1.6 + +This release includes more improvement to warmup time and memory +requirements. We have seen about a 20% memory requirement reduction and up to +30% warmup time improvement, more detail in the `blog post`_. + +We also now have `fully support for the IBM s390x`_. Since this support is in +`RPython`_, any dynamic language written using RPython, like PyPy, will +automagically be supported on that architecture. + +We updated cffi_ to 1.6, and continue to improve support for the wider +python ecosystem using the PyPy interpreter. You can download the PyPy 5.1 release here: @@ -27,6 +34,8 @@ .. _`help`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/project-ideas.html .. _`numpy`: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy .. _cffi: https://cffi.readthedocs.org +.. _`fully support for the IBM s390x`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/04/pypy-enterprise-edition.html +.. _`blog post`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/04/warmup-improvements-more-efficient.html What is PyPy? ============= @@ -105,7 +114,7 @@ our issue tracker at https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues or on IRC at #pypy -* Numpy: +* Numpy_: * Implemented numpy.where for a single argument @@ -141,7 +150,7 @@ * Update rpython functions with ones needed for py3k .. _resolved: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/whatsnew-5.0.0.html -.. _`blog post`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/02/c-api-support-update.html +.. _Numpy: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy Please update, and continue to help us make PyPy better. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
