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What's new in PyPy xxx
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.. this is the revision of the last merge from default to release-1.9.x
.. startrev: 8d567513d04d

.. branch: default

Fixed the performance of gc.get_referrers()

.. branch: app_main-refactor

.. branch: win-ordinal

.. branch: reflex-support

Provides cppyy module (disabled by default) for access to C++ through Reflex.
See doc/cppyy.rst for full details and functionality.

.. branch: nupypy-axis-arg-check

Check that axis arg is valid in _numpypy

.. branch: less-gettestobjspace

.. branch: move-apptest-support

.. branch: iterator-in-rpython

.. branch: numpypy_count_nonzero

.. branch: numpy-refactor

Remove numpy lazy evaluation and simplify everything

.. branch: numpy-reintroduce-jit-drivers

.. branch: numpy-fancy-indexing

Support for array[array-of-ints] in numpy

.. branch: even-more-jit-hooks

Implement better JIT hooks

.. branch: virtual-arguments

Improve handling of \*\*kwds greatly, making them virtual sometimes.

.. branch: improve-rbigint

Introduce __int128 on systems where it's supported and improve the speed of
rlib/rbigint.py greatly.

.. branch: translation-cleanup

Start to clean up a bit the flow object space.

.. branch: ffi-backend

Support CFFI.  https://morepypy.blogspot.ch/2012/08/cffi-release-03.html

.. branch: speedup-unpackiterable

.. branch: stdlib-2.7.3

The stdlib was updated to version 2.7.3

.. branch: numpypy-complex2

Complex dtype support for numpy

.. branch: numpypy-problems

Improve dtypes intp, uintp, void, string and record

.. branch: numpypy.float16

Add float16 numpy dtype

.. branch: kill-someobject

major cleanups including killing some object support

.. branch: cpyext-PyThreadState_New

implement threadstate-related functions in cpyext

.. branch: unicode-strategies

add dict/list/set strategies optimized for unicode items


.. "uninteresting" branches that we should just ignore for the whatsnew:

.. branch: slightly-shorter-c

.. branch: better-enforceargs

.. branch: rpython-unicode-formatting

.. branch: jit-opaque-licm

.. branch: rpython-utf8

Support for utf-8 encoding in RPython

.. branch: arm-backend-2

Support ARM in the JIT.