GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv and cat Commands

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.5-Released

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The commit with more details on that perf change is: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/fcfba90d0d27a1...

A summary of other changes just released in GNU coreutils 9.5 are:

- mv accepts --exchange to swap files

- env accepts --argv0 to override command name

- od supports half precision floating point formats

- timeout fixes various races

- chmod -R avoids symlink replacement attack

For all the release details see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2024-0...