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Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

([Programming] 6 Hours Ago Rust Coreutils 0.8)


Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils.

Rust Coreutils 0.8 is described as bringing "significant" performance gains across core utilities, expanded WebAssembly "WASI" support with a new online playground, and hardening against edge-case panics.

With the expanded WebAssembly support is also a new online playground [1]here for trying out Rust Coreutils within your web browser.

Rust Coreutils 0.8 is passing around 94.74% of all the GNU test suite cases, up 0.15% from the prior release. Rust Coreutils has also removed more unsafe code from different core utilities.

Some of the performance work is leading to the dd command being around 45% faster, faster start-up across utilities, the sort command will now sort paths faster, a 3% gain for numfmt, and various other optimizations.

Downloads and more details on Rust Coreutils 0.8 via [2]GitHub .



[1] https://uutils.github.io/playground/

[2] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.8.0


Dave Finton gazes into his crystal ball...

January 2099: Rob Malda Finally Gets His Damned Nano-Technology

The Linux hacker community finally breathed a collective sigh of relief
when it was announced that Rob Malda finally got his damned
nanotechnology.

"It's about time!" exclaimed one Dothead. "He been going on about that
crap since god-knows-when. Now that he's got that and those wearable
computers, maybe we can read about something interesting on Slashdot!"

Observers were skeptical, however. Already the now-immortal Rob Malda
nano-cyborg (who reportedly changed his name to "18 of 49, tertiary
adjunct of something-or-other") has picked up a few new causes to shout
about to the high heavens until everyone's ears start bleeding. In one
Slashdot article, Malda writes "Here's an article about the potential of
large greyish high-tech mile-wide cubes flying through space, all
controlled by a collective mind set upon intergalactic conquest.
Personally, I can't wait. Yum."