Changes to garbage-collect, new var strings-consed,

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 5c57e6b6ec3ea3e2a33099ede52d8f5bf70729e1..905d71b9437f159cbd99d981dfd8a9ab2bd3e5f5 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1258,6 +1258,15 @@ Other properties are ignored.
 
 ** 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.
+
 \f
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