Jim Meyering wrote:
Slightly surprised that 4/6 makes a measurable performance difference (didn't check),
It's not measurable. I should have written it up as a cleanup more than as a speedup.
I did like breaking the nominal ZB/s barrier, though, in patch 6/6. That's waaaay more than the total throughput of the Internet. It tops even the hypothetical throughput if one recruited the entire US freight industry to move nothing but MicroSD cards, which xkcd estimates would get only 0.06 ZB/s or so.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
