[Python-checkins] cpython: whatsnew: random.getrandbits performance.

Tue Dec 31 23:03:08 CET 2013

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/171224d8ec68
changeset: 88235:171224d8ec68
user: R David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
date: Tue Dec 31 15:06:05 2013 -0500
summary:
 whatsnew: random.getrandbits performance.
Also fix a NEWS file issue number error, and some spacing fixes in whatsnew.
files:
 Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 5 +++++
 Misc/NEWS | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -453,6 +453,7 @@
 
 .. _whatsnew-tracemalloc:
 
+
 tracemalloc
 -----------
 
@@ -902,6 +903,7 @@
 using the new :mod:`enum` module. This allows descriptive reporting during
 debugging, instead of seeing integer "magic numbers".
 
+
 ssl
 ---
 
@@ -1198,6 +1200,9 @@
 most cases. :class:`lzma.LZMAFile` has also been optimized. (Contributed by
 Serhiy Storchaka and Nadeem Vawda in :issue:`16034`.)
 
+* :func:`random.getrandbits` is 20%-40% faster for small integers (the most
+ common use case). (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`16674`).
+
 
 Deprecated
 ==========
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@
 byte-compiled file is a symlink or non-regular file as a warning that import
 will not keep the file path type if it writes to that path.
 
-- Issue #180022: Have site.addpackage() consider already known paths even when
+- Issue #16972: Have site.addpackage() consider already known paths even when
 none are explicitly passed in. Bug report and fix by Kirill.
 
 - Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
-- 
Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython
