From d1ee204b2174d6aff4eacc6f2d64c6812b80e6f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Kronbichler <kronbichler@lnm.mw.tum.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:37:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Changelog

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+Improved: The gzip compression previously applied by
+GridTools::exchange_cell_data_to_ghosts() has been disabled because network
+throughput is typically higher than the rate by which gzip is able to
+compress. This speeds up DoFHandler::distribute_dofs(), among others.
+<br>
+(Martin Kronbichler, 2019/09/16)
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2.39.5