From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:29:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention the hash table change.
X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/530a2199dae9e88ed9e5b15fedb219d188f71936

Mention the hash table change.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2e65e107..38aa6ab8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -242,6 +242,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
 
     - Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links.
 
+    - The sender's hash table for checksum information was improved to make it
+      more efficient when updating really large files (starting from around
+      2.5GB, but most visibly for much larger files).  This prevents the hash
+      table from getting overloaded, which saves CPU time (and real time) at
+      the expense of a little extra memory (and it actually saves memory for
+      normal sized files).
+
     - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
       improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
       --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and