Add Vladimir Marangozov's object allocator. It is disabled by default. This
closes SF patch #401229.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dce6780..179d10a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
Core language, builtins, and interpreter
+- An optional object allocator has been included. This allocator is
+ optimized for Python objects and should be faster and use less memory
+ than the standard system allocator. It is not enabled by default
+ because of possible thread safety problems. The allocator is only
+ protected by the Python interpreter lock and it is possible that some
+ extension modules require a thread safe allocator. The object
+ allocator can be enabled by providing the "--with-pymalloc" option to
+ configure.
+
Standard library
- pyexpat now detects the expat version if expat.h defines it. A