From: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 23:45:13 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Remove outdated and confusing advice about setting maxsize (GH-19889)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0b1~196
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Remove outdated and confusing advice about setting maxsize (GH-19889)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functools.rst b/Doc/library/functools.rst
index e708a0d99cd0..856c1c790ae3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functools.rst
@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
            return sum(sentence.count(vowel) for vowel in 'aeiou')
 
    If *maxsize* is set to ``None``, the LRU feature is disabled and the cache can
-   grow without bound.  The LRU feature performs best when *maxsize* is a
-   power-of-two.
+   grow without bound.
 
    If *typed* is set to true, function arguments of different types will be
    cached separately.  For example, ``f(3)`` and ``f(3.0)`` will be treated