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Add a NEWS entry for multithreaded symbol loading

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Just to let people know that this is available and how to use it.

Also updates the description of the setting to say the default is 0.

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2019-11-26  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* NEWS: Mention the new multithreaded symbol loading.

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with extensions .gdb, .py and .scm are supported as long as GDB was
compiled with support for that language.
* GDB now supports multithreaded symbol loading for higher performance.
This feature is still in testing, so it is disabled by default. You
can turn it on using 'maint set worker-threads unlimited'.
* Python API
** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ set style highlight intensity VALUE
maint set worker-threads
maint show worker-threads
Control the number of worker threads that can be used by GDB. The
default is "unlimited", which lets GDB choose a number that is
default is 0. "unlimited" lets GDB choose a number that is
reasonable. Currently worker threads are only used when demangling
the names of linker symbols.