From: Alex Martelli <aleaxit@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:02:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document the performance fix to builtin_sum().
X-Git-Tag: v2.3.3c1~109
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document the performance fix to builtin_sum().
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7b010f1eadbb..0fd019650153 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Core and builtins
 - Patch #820195: object.__contains__() now returns True or False instead
   of 1 or 0.
 
+- builtin_sum() now uses PyNumber_InPlaceAdd, fixing a previous
+  performance bug for sum(list_of_lists) and similar cases.
+
 Extension modules
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