From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:58:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a note about the RLock acceleration
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~2193
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5bab5080850b68be5e1cd804c0cc5168d0e8882a;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add a note about the RLock acceleration
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index a47ee99c0d26..a8b2fe4a733a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ Multi-threading
 
   (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou)
 
+* Recursive locks (created with the :func:`threading.RLock` API) now benefit
+  from a C implementation which makes them as fast as regular locks, and
+  between 10x and 15x faster than their previous pure Python implementation.
+
+  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`3001`.)
+
 
 Optimizations
 =============