[HN Gopher] GNU Binutlis 2.37 has been released
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       GNU Binutlis 2.37 has been released
        
       Author : edelsohn
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2021-07-18 18:50 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | rightbyte wrote:
       | It is kinda refreshing to read a release note. Have those gone
       | out of fashion?
        
         | johannes1234321 wrote:
         | "Bug fixes and improvements"
        
           | proactivesvcs wrote:
           | "Details not supplied by developer" -- Occasionally seen on
           | some of Google apps on Android.
        
       | nh2 wrote:
       | This release also fixes a 300x speed regression in `strip`:
       | 
       | https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28058
       | 
       | Many Linux distributions use strip as part of their package
       | builds, so it can have a large impact in some cases.
        
       | MrUssek wrote:
       | Typo: Binutlis => Binutils
        
         | qbasic_forever wrote:
         | Amazing how brains work, I still had to read your correction
         | about 5 times before I realized what was wrong.
        
           | yissp wrote:
           | Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't
           | mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny
           | iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the
           | rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll
           | raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos
           | not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
        
             | mikevm wrote:
             | Hloy siht.
        
             | jamespwilliams wrote:
             | iprmoatnt*
        
             | hyperpape wrote:
             | This is a nice daeimorsttn of a real peehmnoon, but the
             | eaailoptxn geivn (that olny the first and last leerttrs
             | maettr) is iccenorrt.
             | 
             | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
        
           | sgt wrote:
           | Interesting. I read it as "bin" + "utlis" and wondered for a
           | second if this was some rewrite in Rust or something.
        
       | choeger wrote:
       | These tools are so important, yet I would bet that less than 1%
       | of developers can actually use them and even less would have an
       | idea on how to reimplement or improve them. Sometimes I feel like
       | we are standing on a house of cards about to collapse.
        
         | throwaway984393 wrote:
         | The house of cards analogy doesn't work much in real life
         | because most things in life aren't that simple and fragile.
         | It's of course possible to find single points of failure in
         | complex systems, but we tend to identify them and work around
         | them before they become a big problem.
         | 
         | In this situation, there are plenty of C programmers out there,
         | so most developers don't need to know anything about these
         | tools.
        
         | imglorp wrote:
         | Fortunately, by law of large numbers, if there are about 2.5e7
         | developers globally, that means there might be 2.5e5 who fit
         | that bill.
        
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