# HG changeset patch
# User Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
# Date 1284360066 -7200
# Node ID 07b4cd7957426c8b4f32169c2f1c6eb8a219f635
# Parent  28ef5a31763d2b3f78637f9beed98872db428ae5
update NEWS

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-09-13  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Update.
+
 2010-09-10  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
 
 	* m4/ax_blas_f77_func.m4: Update.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
--- a/NEWS
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@@ -336,6 +336,14 @@
      value for empty fields and also to accept file IDs opened by fopen. Likewise,
      dlmwrite can write to file IDs.
 
+  ** Octave can now optimize away the interpreter overhead of an anonymous function
+     handle, if the function simply calls another function or handle with some of its
+     parameters bound to certain values. Example:
+     
+       f = @(x) sum (x, 1);
+
+     When f is called, the call is forwarded to @sum with the constant 1 appended, and
+     the anonymous function call does not occur on the call stack.
 
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
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