From 34f78a2dcd8160b483d86474702785337bbeb7ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aliaksey Kandratsenka Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:39:06 -0700 Subject: bumped version to 2.7rc --- NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5b39743..506bf20 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,23 @@ +== 18 Mar 2018 == +gperftools 2.7rc is out! + +Changes: + +* Most notable change in this release is that very large allocations + (>1MiB) are now handled be O(log n) implementation. This is + contributed by Todd Lipcon based on earlier work by Aliaksei + Kandratsenka and James Golick. Special thanks to Alexey Serbin for + contributing OSX fix for that commit. + +* detection of sized deallocation support is improved. Which should + fix another set of issues building on OSX. Much thanks to Alexey + Serbin for reporting the issue, suggesting a fix and verifying it. + +* Todd Lipcon made a change to extend page heaps freelists to 1 MiB + (up from 1MiB - 8KiB). This may help a little for some workloads. + +* Ishan Arora contributed typo fix to docs + == 9 Dec 2017 == gperftools 2.6.3 is out! -- cgit v1.2.1