GNU Coreutils 9.1 Released With Efficiency Enhancements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Coreutils 9.1 Released With Efficiency Enhancements

GNU Coreutils 9.1 is out this weekend as the latest feature update to these widely-used core utilities on Linux and other platforms with supplying cp, cat, ls, and other common commands...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Coreutils-9.1

[Danny3]

The ls command no longer colors files with capabilities by default, since they are rarely used and increases processing time by about 30% per file.

Rarely used?

Oh, come on!
Colors are really helpful and doesn't take space.
This seem like a bad tradeoff.

[Kjell]

Rarely used?

Oh, come on!
Colors are really helpful and doesn't take space.
This seem like a bad tradeoff.

Definitely, sounds like a step backwards IMO

[S.Pam]

Rarely used?

Oh, come on!
Colors are really helpful and doesn't take space.
This seem like a bad tradeoff.

Isn't it about performance checking each file. On huge dirs this could probably make a difference.

[rene]

nice, updated: https://t2sde.org/packages/coreutils

[NomadDemon]

So.. when coreutils for windows?

[arQon]

Colors are really helpful and doesn't take space.

I've never found them helpful other than for easy dir/file distinction, but anyway: isn't this specifically just about coloring setuid files etc? The "normal" dircolors stuff is (almost) entirely driven by file extension, which can't possibly be taking 30% of the run time unless it's actually opening the file and trying to parse magic signatures instead.

[NomadDemon]

I've never found them helpful other than for easy dir/file distinction, but anyway: isn't this specifically just about coloring setuid files etc? The "normal" dircolors stuff is (almost) entirely driven by file extension, which can't possibly be taking 30% of the run time unless it's actually opening the file and trying to parse magic signatures instead.

some tools would work with no hacking for windows. Unification