Note the hp::DoFHandler cell dof indices cache.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@30669 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
index 69c5201de64d36ff1f281fc330491e8cdba9ef7f..5b39825a43f708c0234faaa582a2be82e173e2e0 100644 (file)
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 
 
 <ol>
+  <li>
+  New: Like the usual DoFHandler class, the hp::DoFHandler class now also
+  has a cache that makes operations such as <code>cell-@>get_dof_indices(...)</code>
+  faster. This should accelerate many parts of the library that deal with
+  hp finite elements.
+  <br>
+  (Wolfgang Bangerth, 2013/09/10)
+  </li>
+
   <li>
   New: parallel::distributed::Triangulation now supports periodic boundaries. 
   DoFTools::make_periodicity_constraints and similar functions are now working 
@@ -60,6 +69,7 @@ inconvenience this causes.
   <br>
   (Tobin Isaac, Craig Michoski, Daniel Arndt, 2013/09/06)
   </li>
+
   <li>
   New: It is now possible to compile and link deal.II against LLVM's libcxx. For
   this, a few issues with C++ standard violations are resolved.