On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 03:34:53PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Another consideration is concurrency. If you have a multi-core processor > and implement a solution that puts two or more cores to work at the same > time, a concurrent program should finish sooner than a sequential program. > Again, benchmarking.
One of the main reasons why people still suggest learning the xargs -0 variant is because GNU xargs has a lovely little -P option that runs tasks in parallel. It's super easy to go from find ... -print0 | xargs -0 sha256sum to something like find ... -print0 | xargs -0 -P 4 sha256sum This is one of the main advantages of the xargs -0 approach over the find -exec + approach. If you don't need any of GNU xargs's fancy features, you can just stick with the standard -exec +.
