From 1c4b65d7f0d19b189b3df86b35e8a64dbda0791d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukasz Langa Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:28:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-31558: Update NEWS and ACKS --- Misc/ACKS | 1 + .../2017-10-16-14-27-25.bpo-31558.K-uRRm.rst | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-16-14-27-25.bpo-31558.K-uRRm.rst diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS index 0f6ac7d898a17b..38f68aca214611 100644 --- a/Misc/ACKS +++ b/Misc/ACKS @@ -919,6 +919,7 @@ William Lewis Akira Li Robert Li Xuanji Li +Zekun Li Robert van Liere Ross Light Shawn Ligocki diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-16-14-27-25.bpo-31558.K-uRRm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-16-14-27-25.bpo-31558.K-uRRm.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..d502f15ad67677 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-16-14-27-25.bpo-31558.K-uRRm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +``gc.freeze()`` is a new API that allows for moving all objects currently +tracked by the garbage collector to a permanent generation, effectively +removing them from future collection events. This can be used to protect +those objects from having their PyGC_Head mutated. In effect, this enables +great copy-on-write stability at fork().