>From 21dad0c6ac46846fbee6eabbb736dfe87fbac508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:22:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention performance changes

* NEWS: Discuss recent performance improvements and downgrades.
---
 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7269d57..3a20096 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ GNU grep NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   'grep -i Lj' now matches both 'LJ' (U+01C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LJ)
   and 'lj' (U+01C9 LATIN SMALL LETTER LJ).
 
+** Improvements
+
+  Performance has improved, typically by 10% and in some cases by a
+  factor of 200.  However, performance of grep -P in UTF-8 locales has
+  gotten worse as part of the fix for the abovementioned crashes.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.18 (2014-02-20) [stable]
 
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1.9.0