Issue 2321: reduce memory usage (increase the memory that is returned
to the system) by using pymalloc for the data of unicode objects.
Will backport.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1fc6691..5576019 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and builtins
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+- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
+ memory usage in some circumstances.
+
- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal literals
are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".
This also affects int(x, 0).