GNU Coreutils 9.6 Released With Changes For POSIX 2024, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Use

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Coreutils 9.6 Released With Changes For POSIX 2024, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Use

GNU Coreutils 9.6 released today as the updated version of these core utilities common to Linux systems and elsewhere...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.6

[Muddy]

Nice, keep the updates coming more GNU for you.

[KRiloshart]

What you're referring to as GNU Coreutils, is in fact, Linux/GNU Coreutils, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux plus GNU.

[JosiahBradley]

Sometimes it's nice to see the old long lived programs getting support and enhancements from things like AVX2 etc.

[fintux]

Using AVX2 with "cksum -a crc" is yielding around a 40% speed-up or the AVX-512 code path yields around a 60% speed-up. The ARMv8 SIMD support for CRC meanwhile is 80% faster.

For clarity, these are time reductions. So e.g. for ARMv8, the throughput is now 5x (it processes the same data in 20% of the time), an increase of 400%.

[Akiko]

What you're referring to as GNU Coreutils, is in fact, Linux/GNU Coreutils, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux plus GNU.

Hmm, tell that to the people who use the coreutils with HURD... or a BSD kernel... Haiku... Darwin...

[archkde]

What you're referring to as GNU Coreutils, is in fact, Linux/GNU Coreutils, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux plus GNU.

No, GNU coreutils do not contain code from Linux. They are written as part of the GNU project.

[ssokolow]

No, GNU coreutils do not contain code from Linux. They are written as part of the GNU project.

It's a silly joke about that "Linux is really GNU/Linux" line. It doesn't need to make sense as long as it gets a grin.

[smitty3268]

The wc utility also now uses a minimum of 256KiB at a time rather than 16KiB and that is yielding around 10% faster performance when reading cached files.

OH NO! Think of all the bloat just wasting memory!

[archkde]

It's a silly joke about that "Linux is really GNU/Linux" line. It doesn't need to make sense as long as it gets a grin.

I know, but the difference is that the GNU/Linux thing is actually true (at least to some extent; there are also tons of non-Linux non-GNU components on typical "GNU/Linux" systems, and there exist non-GNU Linux-based systems).