[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.831.4.6,1.831.4.7

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv22315a/Misc

Modified Files:
      Tag: release23-maint
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Re-introduction of caching.  Not thread-safe against the changing of locale
in the middle of executing time.strptime .  Added new tests for caching
mechanism; taken from 2.4 branch and tweaked appropriately.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	6 Aug 2003 06:55:09 -0000	1.831.4.6
--- NEWS	6 Aug 2003 21:17:09 -0000	1.831.4.7
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*** 27,30 ****
--- 27,34 ----
  - Bug #782369:  fix memory leak in array module.
  
+ - Caching in _strptime.py has been re-introduced.  This leads to a large
+   performance boost at the cost of being thread-safe from locale changes
+   while executing time.strptime() .
+ 
  IDLE
  ----