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@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- base64 encoding throughput for bulk data is increased by about 60%. + md5sum uses libcrypto hash routines where available to potentially + get better performance through using more system specific code. + sha1sum for example has improved throughput by 40% on an i3-2310M. + This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum. + stat and tail work better with EFIVARFS, EXOFS, F2FS, SNFS and UBIFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses inotify for files on those file systems, rather than the default (for unknown |