of size 8: wcscmp (wcscmp.S:464))

up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
between 12x and 80x, depending on the application.

Patch by Zooko O'Whielacronx.

  and lifetime issues of dynamically allocated Py_buffer members (#9990)
  as well as crashes (#8305, #7433). Many new features have been added
  (See whatsnew/3.3), and the documentation has been updated extensively.
  The ndarray test object from _testbuffer.c implements all aspects of
  PEP-3118, so further development towards the complete implementation
  of the PEP can proceed in a test-driven manner.

  Thanks to Nick Coghlan, Antoine Pitrou and Pauli Virtanen for review
  and many ideas.

- Issue #12834: Fix incorrect results of memoryview.tobytes() for
  non-contiguous arrays.

- Issue #5231: Introduce memoryview.cast() method that allows changing
  format and shape without making a copy of the underlying memory.

Price.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

TESTED=./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall (both debug and opt modes)

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  r66006 | neal.norwitz | 2008-08-23 22:04:52 -0700 (Sat, 23 Aug 2008) | 25 lines

  Fix:
   * crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc
   * memory leaks found with valgrind
   * compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads
   * problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker

  Update the valgrind suppressions file with new leaks that are small/one-time
  leaks we don't care about (ie, they are too hard to fix).

  TBR=barry
  TESTED=./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall (both debug and opt modes)
    in opt mode:
    valgrind -q --leak-check=yes --suppressions=Misc/valgrind-python.supp \
      ./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall,-bsddb,-compiler \
                          -x test_logging test_ssl test_multiprocessing
    valgrind -q --leak-check=yes --suppressions=Misc/valgrind-python.supp \
      ./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py test_multiprocessing
    for i in `seq 1 4000` ; do
      LD_PRELOAD=~/local/lib/libfailmalloc.so FAILMALLOC_INTERVAL=$i \
          ./python -c pass
    done

  At least some of these fixes should probably be backported to 2.5.
........