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* The performance of the unpickler was drastically improved by
avoiding tag checks for basic Python types. (+340)
* ``decode()`` documentation improvements. (+341)
* Serialization of Pandas DataFrame objects that contain
timedelta64[ns] dtypes are now supported. (+330) (331)
* Dictionary identity is now preserved. For example, if the same
dictionary appears twice in a list, the reconstituted list
will now contain two references to the same dictionary. (255) (+332)
* Unit tests were added to ensure that sklearn.tree.DecisionTreeClassifier
objects are properly serialized. (155) (+344)
* The ``is_reducible()`` utility function used by ``encode()`` is now
4x faster! Objects that provide ``__getstate__()``, ``__setstate__()``,
and ``__slots__`` benefit most from these improvements. (+343)
* Improved pickler ``flatten()/encode()`` performance. (+345)