# HG changeset patch
# User Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
# Date 946989302 0
# Node ID 01abacc81ccec94d966763925d26f00265a7ebc4
# Parent  46becbc6770376938bdcced0d1ed79890df50822
Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,

diff -r 46becbc67703 -r 01abacc81cce etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Tue Jan 04 12:29:05 2000 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Tue Jan 04 12:35:02 2000 +0000
@@ -1258,6 +1258,15 @@
 
 ** keywordp is a new predicate to test efficiently for an object being
 a keyword symbol.
+
+** Changes to garbage collection
+
+*** The function garbage-collect now additionally returns the number
+of live and free strings.
+
+*** There is a new variable `strings-consed' holding the number of
+strings that have been consed so far.
+
 
 * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1