# HG changeset patch
# User Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
# Date 1262604727 -3600
# Node ID 8f7f325fa6785759ecc0929a934ba796bd3a37d7
# Parent  830986c43deec7d11b40e9d283b0d66dfe82e721
update NEWS

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+2010-01-04  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Update.
+
 2009-12-27  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* configure.ac: Use libtool cache variables to simplify checks
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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     Optimizations only apply when both operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex
     and single/double operations will first convert both operands to a common type.
 
+ ** "strfind" and "strrep" now have compiled implementations, facilitating significantly 
+    more efficient searching and replacing in strings, especially with longer patterns.
+    The code of "strcat" has been vectorized and is now much more efficient
+    when lots of strings are concatenated.
+
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
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