From 8d974b00fbbc2025de63e1e6d54827648fefa1c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kamil Dudka Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:31:50 +0200 Subject: ls -U1 now uses constant memory When printing one name per line and not sorting, ls now uses constant memory per directory, no matter how many files are in the directory. * ls.c (print_dir): Print each file name immediately, when possible. * NEWS: Mention the improvement. --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5796dfa63..4637ebad9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- join has significantly better performance due to better memory management + ls now uses constant memory when not sorting and using one_per_line format, + no matter how many files are in a given directory + od now aligns fields across lines when printing multiple -t specifiers, and no longer prints fields that resulted entirely from padding the input out to the least common multiple width. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf