From 530a2199dae9e88ed9e5b15fedb219d188f71936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:29:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the hash table change. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.34.1