Thanks for working on this - the performance gain sounds excellent! 2 minor nits:
On 11/11/2013 06:16 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > [...] > Also increase the encoding buffer size from 3 to 30KiB. > This was seen to give a further 8% improvement, taking > processing time down to 0.235s is the wrapped output case. did you mean s/is/in/ ? > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS > index 7028c0d..fafe06d 100644 > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- > outline -*- > > ** Improvements > > + base64 encoding throughtput for bulk data is increased by about 60%. > + Typo: s/throughtput/throughput/ Otherwise: +1 Thanks & have a nice day, Berny
