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@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ Core and builtins
- Changed the internal list over-allocation scheme. For larger lists,
overallocation ranged between 3% and 25%. Now, it is a constant 12%.
- For smaller lists (n<=5), overallocation was upto eight bytes. Now,
- the overallocation is no more than one byte -- this improves space
+ For smaller lists (n<8), overallocation was upto eight elements. Now,
+ the overallocation is no more than three elements -- this improves space
utilization for applications that have large numbers of small lists.
- Support for arbitrary objects supporting the read-only buffer