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@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- This makes rm -rf significantly faster (400-500%) in some pathological cases, and slightly slower (20%) in at least one pathological case. + rm -r deletes deep hierarchies more efficiently. Before, it took O(N^2) + time, now it takes O(N). However, this improvement is not as pronounced + as might be expected for very deep trees, because prior to this change, for + any relative name length longer than 8KiB, rm -r would sacrifice official + conformance to avoid the disproportionate O(N^2) performance penalty. + Leading to another improvement: + + rm -r is now slightly more standards-conformant when operating on + write-protected relative file names longer than 8KiB. + * Noteworthy changes in release 7.6 (2009-09-11) [stable] |