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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-01-24 00:22:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-01-24 00:22:45 +0100 |
| commit | 1f7d56fda5db9c5bd62eb9cc3ae543c00499a68f (patch) | |
| tree | eaee8422c1cc22183f13697f5b488ab8797a7142 /NEWS | |
| parent | f33168da952e13e4ee99e1531ac41643b78addd4 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-1f7d56fda5db9c5bd62eb9cc3ae543c00499a68f.tar.xz | |
* NEWS: sort temp file compression: tweak wording.
* src/sort.c (struct sortfile) [name]: Declare member to be const.
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - sort can now compresses temporary files to improve performance of - very large sorts. + By default, sort usually compresses each temporary file it writes. + When sorting very large inputs, this can result in sort using far + less temporary disk space and in improved performance. * Noteworthy changes in release 6.7 (2006-12-08) [stable] |