After a multi-year hiatus, an org transfer with new admins and maintainers, jq 1.7 has been released!

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Gamma@programming.dev · 1 year ago

Sigmatics · 1 year ago

The speed ups are definitely understated in the release notes if they are that significant

Gamma@programming.dev · edit-2 1 year ago

That’s because it was a regression from 1.5 to 1.6 that got fixed.

The 10x speedup is in linking builtins during startup, so it’s only really seen for very small inputs.

Sigmatics · 1 year ago

I get that they’re embarrassed to mention it, but it’s still worth a bullet in the release notes I reckon