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Add a few items to the 3.7 release note, from Rafael

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@@ -53,6 +53,19 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
a pointer to make it explicit. The Module owns the datalayout and it has to a pointer to make it explicit. The Module owns the datalayout and it has to
match the one attached to the TargetMachine for generating code. match the one attached to the TargetMachine for generating code.
* Comdats are now ortogonal to the linkage. LLVM will not create
comdats for weak linkage globals and the frontends are responsible
for explicitly adding them.
* On ELF we now support multiple sections with the same name and
comdat. This allows for smaller object files since multiple
sections can have a simple name (`.text`, `.rodata`, etc).
* LLVM now lazily loads metadata in some cases. Creating archives
with IR files with debug info is now 25X faster.
* llvm-ar can create archives in the BSD format used by OS X.
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