“Notable speedups in cat, ls, wc, tail, seq, and more — many now match or exceed GNU performance.”
GNU Test Suite Compatibility:
Tag: GNU
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GIMP 3.0 arrives after 7 years (!!!) of incubation. Last version was 2.10 from 2018.
Release Notes: https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html
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Highlights:
- Improved Compatibility:
- This release focused on compatibility with the upstream GNU Coreutils 9.6 release. This is why the number of passing tests didn’t change much – our effort was directed at adapting to the new upstream version rather than fixing existing test failures.
- Passing GNU tests increased to 507 (+1 compared to 0.0.29).
- Improved Compatibility:
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“cp, mv, install, cat, and split commands can now read/write a minimum of 256KiB at a time. Previously there was a 128KiB minimum while this has been doubled in order to enhance the throughput of Coreutils on modern systems. The throughput with Coreutils 9.5 thanks to this change increases by 10~20% when reading cached files on modern systems. The benefit comes from reducing system call overhead. This default I/O size update was last adjusted a decade ago.”
This change was introduced in this commit:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-03/msg00006.html
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“Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.”
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