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| author | Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer@UGent.be> | 2019-06-03 01:43:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com> | 2019-06-03 01:43:13 +0200 |
| commit | 9e3e06e582accec82eb29cf665c3b4c7d84d2eb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 81014d35b3964315761366b231ae69d73e473a8c /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 82eac26a73107ded733110cf11e59e95f41c197e (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-9e3e06e582accec82eb29cf665c3b4c7d84d2eb0.tar.gz | |
bpo-36974: document PEP 590 (GH-13450)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index e9c9c814c6..9474a2f4aa 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -238,6 +238,22 @@ See :pep:`587` for a full description. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`36763`.) +Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython +----------------------------------------------- + +The "vectorcall" protocol is added to the Python/C API. +It is meant to formalize existing optimizations which were already done +for various classes. +Any extension type implementing a callable can use this protocol. + +This is currently provisional, +the aim is to make it fully public in Python 3.9. + +See :pep:`590` for a full description. + +(Contributed by Jeroen Demeyer and Mark Shannon in :issue:`36974`.) + + Other Language Changes ====================== |