[pypy-commit] pypy default: tweak 2.5.0 release notice

mattip noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Tue Feb 3 21:31:39 CET 2015


Author: mattip <matti.picus at gmail.com>
Branch: 
Changeset: r75686:d924ae5db23e
Date: 2015-02-03 22:32 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/d924ae5db23e/

Log:	tweak 2.5.0 release notice

diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-2.5.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-2.5.0.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/release-2.5.0.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/release-2.5.0.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-=================================================
-PyPy 2.5 - XXXXXX
-=================================================
+==============================
+PyPy 2.5.0 - Protea Pincushion
+==============================
 
 We're pleased to announce PyPy 2.5, which contains significant performance
 enhancements and bug fixes.
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@
 
 * We have improved warmup time as well as jitted code performance: more than 10%
   compared to pypy-2.4.0, due to internal cleanup and gc nursery improvements.
+  We no longer zero-out memory allocated in the gc nursery by default.
+
+* IO operations got a performance boost by adding a pinning interface that is
+  used by rffi.alloc_buffer and rff.get_nonmovablebuffer.
 
 * Our integrated numpy support gained much of the GenericUfunc api in order to
   support the lapack/blas linalg module of numpy. This dovetails with work in the


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