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update CHANGELOG to reflect new performance tweaks

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# Nmap Changelog ($Id$); -*-text-*-
o Made a number of performance tweaks, such as:
o increase host group sizes in many cases, so Nmap will now commonly
scan 64 hosts at a time rather than 30
o align host groups with common network boundaries, such as /24 or
/25
o Increase maximum per-target port-scan ping frequency to one every
1.25 seconds rather than every five. Port scan pings happen
against heavily firewalled hosts and the like when Nmap is not
receiving enough responses to normal scan to properly calculate
timing variables and detect packet drops.
o Added the undocumented (except here) --nogcc option which disables
global/group congestion control algorithms and so each member of a
scan group of machines is treated separately. This is just an