From 2384f9e1db394334e696ed75006f9b1d5581d59a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:21:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update for hash-table change. --- NEWS | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 38aa6ab8..8cb7681e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -242,13 +242,6 @@ 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 @@ -288,6 +281,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. + - Improved the hash-table code the sender uses to handle checksums to make + it use slightly less memory and run just a little faster. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - The diffs in the patches dir now require "patch -p1