doc: mention the improved sort memory allocation

* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
2026-05-14 10:57:22 -04:00 · 2012-07-12 15:02:19 +01:00
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  or unwritable output.  Sort now diagnoses certain errors at start-up,
  rather than after potentially expensive processing.

+  sort now allocates no more than 75% of physical memory by default,
+  to better share system resources, and thus operate more efficiently.
+  [The default max memory usage changed from 50% to 100% in coreutils-8.16]
+

 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.17 (2012-05-10) [stable]