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there's a new slot \code{tp_richcmp} in type objects and an API for
performing a given rich comparison. I won't cover the C API here, but
! will refer you to PEP 207, or the documentation for Python's C API,
! for the full list of related functions.
\begin{seealso}
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there's a new slot \code{tp_richcmp} in type objects and an API for
performing a given rich comparison. I won't cover the C API here, but
! will refer you to PEP 207, or to 2.1's C API documentation, for the
! full list of related functions.
\begin{seealso}
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+ \item A specialized object allocator is now optionally available, that
+ should be faster than the system \function{malloc()} and have less
+ memory overhead. The allocator uses C's \function{malloc()} function
+ to get large pools of memory, and then fulfills smaller memory
+ requests from these pools. It can be enabled by providing the
+ "--with-pymalloc" option to the \filename{configure} script; see
+ \filename{Objects/obmalloc.c} for the implementation details.
+ Contributed by Vladimir Marangozov.
\item The speed of line-oriented file I/O has been improved because
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