Document the new --fair-sched option.
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* The C++ demangler has been updated so as to work well with C++
compiled by even the most recent g++'s.
+* The new option --fair-sched allows to control the locking mechanism
+ used by Valgrind. The locking mechanism influences the performance
+ and scheduling of multithreaded applications (in particular
+ on multiprocessor/multicore systems).
+
* ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
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where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
247386 make perf does not run all performance tests
+270006 -Valgrind scheduler unfair
270796 s390x: Removed broken support for the TS insn
271438 Fix configure for proper SSE4.2 detection
273114 s390x: Support TR, TRE, TROO, TROT, TRTO, and TRTT instructions