On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> wrote: > At the moment util-linux command are not threading, which means they can > safely use thread-unsafe IO system calls which should make printing > quicker. Do you have numbers about the assumption that this will produce better results on Linux? Uncontended mutexes/futexes on Linux probably might not really show up. Maybe in inner loops, not sure. Would be nice to know ... Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html