Release of GNU utilities grep 3.12, gzip 1.14, diffutils 3.12, and coreutils 9.7.
The GNU project has released package version gzip 1.14, which includes the gzip, gunzip, zmore, and zcat utilities for compressing and decompressing data using the LZ77 algorithm. The new release significantly speeds up decompression operations. On x86_64 systems that support PCLMUL processor instructions, the performance gain reaches 40%, while on systems without PCLMUL support, it is up to 20%. The acceleration is achieved through optimization of […]
