[tobik]

FreeBSD's yes has just been updated because of this.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/1d61762ca37c20ab6f...

It's about twice as fast as GNU yes now on my FreeBSD system here.

[pixelbeat__]

Looks like that may drop some data if you get a short write, possible when writing to pipes etc.

Update: They fixed that issue with this follow up https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/2592fbb8