Author: Richard Plangger <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r88284:16700fced491 Date: 2016-11-10 08:54 +0100 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/16700fced491/
Log: add paragraph to release notes (vecopt) diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-pypy2.7-v5.6.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-pypy2.7-v5.6.0.rst --- a/pypy/doc/release-pypy2.7-v5.6.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-pypy2.7-v5.6.0.rst @@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ Work proceeds at a good pace on the PyPy3.5 version due to a grant_ from the Mozilla Foundation, and some of those -changes have been backported to PyPy2.7 where relevant +changes have been backported to PyPy2.7 where relevant. + +The PowerPC and s390x backend have been enhanced_ with the capability use SIMD instructions + for micronumpy loops. We changed ``timeit`` to now report average +- standard deviation, which is better than the misleading minimum value reported in CPython. @@ -45,6 +48,7 @@ .. _`RPython`: https://rpython.readthedocs.org .. _`modules`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/project-ideas.html#make-more-python-modules-pypy-friendly .. _`help`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/project-ideas.html +.. _`enhanced`: https://morepypy.blogspot.co.at/2016/11/vectorization-extended-powerpc-and-s390x.html What is PyPy? ============= _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
