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| -rw-r--r-- | pypy/doc/config/objspace.soabi.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pypy/doc/config/objspace.translationmodules.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pypy/doc/release-1.4.0.txt | 28 |
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diff --git a/pypy/doc/config/objspace.soabi.txt b/pypy/doc/config/objspace.soabi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ec55f28449 --- /dev/null +++ b/pypy/doc/config/objspace.soabi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +This option controls the tag included into extension module file names. The +default is something like `pypy-14`, which means that `import foo` will look for +a file named `foo.pypy-14.so` (or `foo.pypy-14.pyd` on Windows). + +This is an implementation of PEP3149_, with two differences: + + * the filename without tag `foo.so` is not considered. + * the feature is also available on Windows. + +When set to the empty string (with `--soabi=`), the interpreter will only look +for a file named `foo.so`, and will crash if this file was compiled for another +Python interpreter. + +.. _PEP3149: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/ diff --git a/pypy/doc/config/objspace.translationmodules.txt b/pypy/doc/config/objspace.translationmodules.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..532e771524 --- /dev/null +++ b/pypy/doc/config/objspace.translationmodules.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +This option enables all modules which are needed to translate PyPy using PyPy. diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-1.4.0.txt b/pypy/doc/release-1.4.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..68fc83f7d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/pypy/doc/release-1.4.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +=============================== +PyPy 1.4: Ouroboros in practice +=============================== + +Hello. + +We're pleased to announce the 1.4 release of PyPy. This is a major breakthrough +in our long journey, as PyPy 1.4 is the first PyPy release that can translate +itself faster than CPython. Starting today, we plan to start using PyPy for our +own development. + +Among other features, this release includes numerous performance improvements +(which made fast self-hosting possible), a 64-bit JIT backend, as well as serious +stabilization. As of now, we can consider the 32-bit version of PyPy stable enough +to run in production. + +More highlights +=============== + +* Virtualenv support: now PyPy is fully compatible with virtualenv_: note that + to use it, you need a recent version of virtualenv (>= 1.5). + +* Faster (and JITted) regular expressions - huge boost in speeding up + sre module. + +* Faster (and JITted) calls to functions like map(). + +.. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv |