On 20/04/2026 16:30, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Notable changes include:
- cat(1) and yes(1) use zero-copy I/O on Linux (up to 15x faster)
- shuf -i operates up to 2x faster by using unlocked stdio
- wc -l operates up to 4.5x faster on hosts with neon instructions
- wc -m is up to 2.6x faster when processing multi-byte characters
You can rightfully call it the Porsche release :)
Heh performance is improving :)
I also forgot to mention that cut(1) is up to 120x faster
than the LI18NUX originated patch:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/a325c9978
cheers,
Padraig
