Author: Matti Picus <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r94249:c52ab484f81b Date: 2018-04-05 15:49 +0300 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/c52ab484f81b/
Log: emphasize cpyext speed improvements diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-v6.0.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-v6.0.0.rst --- a/pypy/doc/release-v6.0.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-v6.0.0.rst @@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ the dual release. This release is a feature release following our previous 5.10 incremental -release in late December 2017, with many improvements in the C-API -compatability layer and other improvements in speed and CPython compatibility. -Since the changes affect the included python development header files, all -c-extension modules must be recompiled for this version. +release in late December 2017. Our C-API compatability layer ``cpyext`` is +now much faster (see the `blog post`_) as well as more complete. We have made +many other improvements in speed and CPython compatibility. Since the changes +affect the included python development header files, all c-extension modules must +be recompiled for this version. -The Windows PyPy3.5 release is still considered beta-quality. There are issues -with unicode handling especially around system calls and c-extensions. +The Windows PyPy3.5 release is still considered beta-quality. There are open +issues with unicode handling especially around system calls and c-extensions. The Matplotlib TkAgg backend now works with PyPy. PyGame and pygtk also now can work with PyPy. @@ -23,11 +24,11 @@ several issues and bugs raised by the growing community of PyPy users. We strongly recommend updating. +We updated the cffi module included in PyPy to version 1.11.5 + The utf8 branch that changes internal representation of unicode to utf8 did not -make it into the release. We also began working on a Python3.6 implementation, -help is welcome. - -We updated the cffi module included in PyPy to version 1.11.5 +make it into the release, so there is still more goodness coming. We also +began working on a Python3.6 implementation, help is welcome. You can download the v6.0 releases here: @@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ .. _`RPython`: https://rpython.readthedocs.org .. _`modules`: project-ideas.html#make-more-python-modules-pypy-friendly .. _`help`: project-ideas.html +.. _`blog post`: https://morepypy.blogspot.it/2017/10/cape-of-good-hope-for-pypy-hello-from.html What is PyPy? ============= _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
