Add description of marshal changes.

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R David Murray 2013-12-22 20:40:11 -05:00
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@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ CPython implementation improvements:
* :ref:`Secure and interchangeable hash algorithm <whatsnew-pep-456>`
(:pep:`456`).
* :ref:`Argument Clinic <whatsnew-pep-436>` (:pep:`436`).
* A more efficient :mod:`marshal` format (:issue:`16475`).
* The :mod:`marshal` format has been made :ref:`more compact and efficient
<whatsnew-marshal-3>` (:issue:`16475`).
Please read on for a comprehensive list of user-facing changes.
@ -626,6 +627,20 @@ metaclasses (Contributed by Ethan Furman in :issue:`18929` and
:issue:`19030`)
.. _whatsnew-marshal-3:
marshal
-------
The default :mod:`marshal` version has been bumped to 3. The code implementing
the new version restores the Python2 behavior of recording only one copy of
interned strings and preserving the interning on deserialization, and extends
this "one copy" ability to any object type (including handling recursive
references). This reduces both the size of ``.pyc`` files and the amount of
memory a module occupies in memory when it is loaded from a ``.pyc`` (or
``.pyo``) file. (Contributed by Kristján Valur Jónsson in :issue:`16475`.)
mmap
----