hostid: reduce lines

[oech3]

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[github-actions]

GNU testsuite comparison:

Skip an intermittent issue tests/tty/tty-eof (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will improve performance by 4.85%

⚡ 1 improved benchmark
✅ 299 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 46 skipped benchmarks¹

Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
⚡	Simulation	sort_ascii_utf8_locale	16.1 ms	15.4 ms	+4.85%

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_{Comparing oech3:hostid-lines (5aeecce) with main (8952452)}

Footnotes

1. 46 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩