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  r65240 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-07-26 00:02:07 +0200 (sam., 26 juil. 2008) | 3 lines

  add a pybench test for complex function calls (part of #1819)
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  r65241 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-07-26 00:13:52 +0200 (sam., 26 juil. 2008) | 4 lines

  Raymond's patch for #1819: speedup function calls with named parameters
  (35% faster according to pybench)
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  r65242 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-07-26 00:22:08 +0200 (sam., 26 juil. 2008) | 3 lines

  add a NEWS entry
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@
 
 *Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
 
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
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+- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
+  average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
+
 Library
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