Document speedup in whatsnew

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Christian Heimes 2013-10-13 03:10:06 +02:00
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@ -506,6 +506,17 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added:
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue"`18771`.)
* The interpreter starts about 30% faster. A couple of measures lead to the
speedup. The interpreter loads less modules on startup, e.g. the :mod:`re`,
:mod:`collections` and :mod:`locale` modules and their dependencies are no
longer imported by default. The marshal module has been improved to load
compiled Python code faster.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou, Christian Heimes and Victor Stinner in
:issue:`19219`, :issue:`19218`, :issue:`19209`, :issue:`19205` and
:issue:`9548`)
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