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  r77794 | jesse.noller | 2010-01-26 22:05:57 -0500 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #6963: Added maxtasksperchild argument to multiprocessing.Pool
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+- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to multiprocessing.Pool,
+  allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by
+  the worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to
+  replace it.
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 - Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
 
 - Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().