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Dolphin 26.08 and KIO make copying many small files more than twice as fast
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Dolphin 26.08 and KIO performance improvements make copying many small files more than twice as fast as in April, with a remaining gap to cp.
For engineers who move many small files, this speedup directly reduces wait times in build and sync workflows. The fix targets per-file overhead, so gains shrink as file size grows. A gap with cp remains, but ongoing batching work aims to close it.
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Copying many small files is more than twice as fast as it was in April.
The speedup diminishes for larger files because the fix reduces per-file overhead.
KIO still lags cp, but batching work to close the gap is in progress.
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