Gnu Coreutils 9.8 Released with New Features
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The GNU Coreutils 9.8 release brings new features, including an accurate nproc command, which is important for cgroup-aware processing.
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Accurate (cgroup aware) nproc is important, as detailed in: https://danluu.com/cgroup-throttling/
The new base58 encoding performs well being around 500 times faster than arbitrary int implementation internal to cpython 3.13 for example