Make up for my missing change note #9084

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+title: $:/changenotes/5.4.0/#9084
+description: Optimize Freelinks plugin with Aho-Corasick for large wikis and non-Latin languages
+tags: $:/tags/ChangeNote
+change-type: enhancement
+change-category: performance
+github-links: [https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5/pull/9084](https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5/pull/9084)
+github-contributors: s793016
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+This change introduces a fully optimized override of the core text widget, integrating an enhanced 'Aho-Corasick algorithm' for automatic linkification (Freelinks). The new engine drastically improves performance for large wikis and ensures correct support for non-Latin scripts (e.g., Chinese).
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+Highlights:
+- Full switch from regex to Aho-Corasick for rapid, multi-pattern title detection, reducing linkification time from 1–5s to 100–500ms on wikis with ~12,000 tiddlers.
+- Gracefully handles large title sets using a chunked insertion process and an optional persistent cache (`$:/config/Freelinks/PersistAhoCorasickCache`).
+- Improved support for CJK and non-Latin text, correctly linking titles containing full-width symbols ('：').
+- Smart prioritization: Longer titles are matched before shorter, ambiguous ones, preventing partial or incorrect linking.
+- Skips self-linking and prevents overlapping matches for clean, deterministic linkification.
+- End users with large or multilingual wikis will see a massive performance boost and 100% accurate linking.
+- New configuration options available for persistent cache and word boundary checking (`$:/config/Freelinks/WordBoundary`).