[m-rev.] for review: announce memory retention profiling

[Julien Fischer]

For review by Peter Wang.

Branches: main, 11.07

NEWS:
 	Announce the support for memory retention profiling.

Julien.

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.590
diff -u -r1.590 NEWS
--- NEWS	13 Aug 2011 16:19:58 -0000	1.590
+++ NEWS	18 Aug 2011 16:32:41 -0000
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
    bag, bimap, eqvclass, map, multi_map, queue and set modules in order
    to make them more conducive to the use of state variable notation.

+Changes to the Mercury profiler:
+
+* We have added a new form of profiling, memory retention profiling, to mprof
+  that allows it to generate reports describing the origin of objects that
+  are live on the heap at selected points in a program.
+  See the Mercury User's Guide for details.
+

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