Author: Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com> Branch: Changeset: r91493:0961eb1c2589 Date: 2017-06-02 13:49 +0300 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/0961eb1c2589/
Log: document cffi 1.10.1, PGO diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-v5.8.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-v5.8.0.rst --- a/pypy/doc/release-v5.8.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-v5.8.0.rst @@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ This new PyPy2.7 release includes the upstream stdlib version 2.7.13, and PyPy3.5 includes the upstream stdlib version 3.5.3. -We continue to make incremental improvements to our C-API -compatibility layer (cpyext). PyPy2 can now import and run many C-extension -packages, among the most notable are Numpy, Cython, and Pandas. Performance may -be slower than CPython, especially for frequently-called short C functions. +This release enables `profile guided optimization` of the base interpreter, +which may make unjitted code run faster. + Please let us know if your use case is slow, we have ideas how to make things faster but need real-world examples (not micro-benchmarks) of problematic code. @@ -24,8 +23,8 @@ We also backported the ``f""`` formatting from 3.6 (as an exception; otherwise "PyPy3.5" supports the Python 3.5 language). -CFFI_ has been updated to 1.11, improving an already great package for -interfacing with C. +CFFI_, which is part of the PyPy release, has been updated to an unreleased 1.10.1, +improving an already great package for interfacing with C. As always, this release fixed many issues and bugs raised by the growing community of PyPy users. We strongly recommend updating. @@ -43,6 +42,7 @@ improvements, tweaking popular `modules`_ to run on pypy, or general `help`_ with making RPython's JIT even better. +.. _`profile guided optimization`: https://pythonfiles.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/enabling-profile-guided-optimizations-for-pypy .. _CFFI: https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/whatsnew.html .. _grant: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-gets-funding-from-mozilla-for.html .. _`PyPy`: index.html _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit