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@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Previously -k1,1b would have caused leading space from field 2 to be
included in the sort while -k2,3.0 would have not included field 3.
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ cp,mv,install,cat,split: now read and write a minimum of 32KiB
+ at a time. This was seen to increase throughput. Up to 2 times
+ when reading cached files on linux for example.
* Noteworthy changes in release 7.1 (2009-02-21) [stable]