From 17becb8d30a53d2528a872f1bc05cd30011f9b02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Araq <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 08:07:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added allocator improvments to the changelog; closes #6031

---
 changelog.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index f061805b14..94cea7dbf4 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -118,3 +118,8 @@ This now needs to be written as:
   See [special-operators](https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#special-operators)
   for more information.
 - Added ``macros.unpackVarargs``.
+- The memory manager now uses a variant of the TLSF algorithm that has much
+  better memory fragmentation behaviour. According
+  to [http://www.gii.upv.es/tlsf/](http://www.gii.upv.es/tlsf/) the maximum
+  fragmentation measured is lower than 25%. As a nice bonus ``alloc`` and
+  ``dealloc`` became O(1) operations.