From: Joel Rosdahl <joel@rosdahl.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:58:09 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Mention the AVX2 algorithm in NEWS
X-Git-Tag: v4.0~719
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=721cfeeafbe98198fe757f7e28ddb737a9540059;p=thirdparty%2Fccache.git

Mention the AVX2 algorithm in NEWS
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diff --git a/doc/NEWS.adoc b/doc/NEWS.adoc
index 37152f604..a8b025bf6 100644
--- a/doc/NEWS.adoc
+++ b/doc/NEWS.adoc
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ High-level summary of changes (work in progress)
   like `-c/--cleanup`, `-C/--clear`, `-x/--show-compression` and
   `-X/--recompress`.
 
+- When supported by the CPU, a SIMD-friendly (using AVX2) algorithm is now used
+  to scan input source code for `__DATE__` and `__TIME__` macros. This can
+  decrease the number of CPU cycles for a direct cache hit with up to 15% in
+  some cases.
+
 - (More to be written.)