Add a note about the RLock acceleration

5bab5080 · Antoine Pitrou · d59f5717 · 5bab5080
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  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou)

+* Recursive locks (created with the :func:`threading.RLock` API) now benefit
+  from a C implementation which makes them as fast as regular locks, and
+  between 10x and 15x faster than their previous pure Python implementation.
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+  (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`3001`.)
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