diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 31b87df5..918a4e5d 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+- how odd, why is resize much faster?
+
+	$ time vips resize wtc.tif small.tif 0.25
+	memory: high-water mark 138.09 MB
+	real	0m0.430s
+	user	0m2.700s
+	sys	0m0.172s
+	$ time vipsthumbnail wtc.tif -o small.tif -s 2500
+	memory: high-water mark 210.05 MB
+	real	0m0.959s
+	user	0m9.984s
+	sys	0m0.184s
+
+  about the same speed for jpg
+
+	$ time vips resize big.jpg[shrink=8] small.jpg 0.6666
+	memory: high-water mark 47.21 MB
+	real	0m1.320s
+	user	0m2.216s
+	sys	0m0.060s
+	$ time vipsthumbnail big.jpg -s 2500 -o small.jpg 
+	memory: high-water mark 58.65 MB
+	real	0m1.360s
+	user	0m2.392s
+	sys	0m0.100s
+
+  seems to be because vipsthumbnail is not int shrinking enough:
+
+	 $ vipsthumbnail wtc.tif -o small.tif -s 2500 --vips-info
+	 info: vipsthumbnail: integer shrink by 1
+	 info: vipsthumbnail: residual scale by 0.266752
+
+  should int shrink by 2! vips resize is doing this right, what's the
+  difference?
+
 
 - are the mosaic functions calling vips_fastcor()? it must be very slow
 
diff --git a/doc/libvips-docs.xml b/doc/libvips-docs.xml
index 8732aa0d..4b6ebb80 100644
--- a/doc/libvips-docs.xml
+++ b/doc/libvips-docs.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <bookinfo>
     <title>VIPS Reference Manual</title>
     <releaseinfo>
-      For VIPS 8.0.2.
+      For VIPS 8.1.0.
       The latest version of this documentation can be found on the 
       <ulink role="online-location"
         url="http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Documentation">VIPS website</ulink>.