cat: Improve performance of formatting.

Issue #7518
Add a BufWriter over stdout when cat outputs any kind of formattted
data. This improves performance considerably.

Author: karlmcdowall

src/uu/cat/src/cat.rs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 // spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) nonprint nonblank nonprinting ELOOP
 use std::fs::{metadata, File};
-use std::io::{self, IsTerminal, Read, Write};
+use std::io::{self, BufWriter, IsTerminal, Read, Write};
 /// Unix domain socket support
 #[cfg(unix)]
 use std::net::Shutdown;
@@ -511,7 +511,9 @@ fn write_lines<R: FdReadable>(
 ) -> CatResult<()> {
     let mut in_buf = [0; 1024 * 31];
     let stdout = io::stdout();
-    let mut writer = stdout.lock();
+    let stdout = stdout.lock();
+    // Add a 32K buffer for stdout - this greatly improves performance.
+    let mut writer = BufWriter::with_capacity(32 * 1024, stdout);
 
     while let Ok(n) = handle.reader.read(&mut in_buf) {
         if n == 0 {
@@ -561,6 +563,7 @@ fn write_lines<R: FdReadable>(
             pos += offset + 1;
         }
     }
+    writer.flush()?;
 
     Ok(())
 }