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-$Id: VERSIONS,v 1.212 2004-05-27 20:49:03 geuzaine Exp $
+$Id: VERSIONS,v 1.213 2004-05-28 21:20:48 geuzaine Exp $
 
 New in 1.53: completed support for second order elements (lines,
 triangles, quadrangles, tetrahedra, hexahedra, prisms and pyramids);
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ rewrote the contour guessing routines so that entities can be selected
 in an arbitrary order; Mac users can now double click on geo/msh/pos
 files in the Finder to launch Gmsh; removed support for fltk 1.0;
 rewrote most of the code related to quadrangles; fixed 2d elliptic
-algorithm; many code cleanups;
+algorithm; experimental use of vertex arrays in mesh drawing code
+(triangles only) to sped up the rendering; many code cleanups;
 
 New in 1.52: new raster ("bitmap") PostScript/EPS/PDF output formats;
 new Plugin(Extract) to extract a given component from a