▲ 59 ▼ It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu. (blog.linuxmint.com) submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev 37 comments fedilink hide all child comments Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?
[+] natecox@programming.dev 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] eleijeep@piefed.social 18 points 5 months ago They probably work a bit faster than the originals There are some commands doing string processing that have been rewritten to use SIMD instructions which makes them inherently faster. On the other hand there are other commands where they're performing worse than GNU coreutils: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Perf Over time they will probably close the performance gap for those outliers, but if the GNU coreutils maintainers wanted to accelerate the same commands with SIMD instructions they could also do that. There's no real reason why long-term one should be faster than the other, except for whichever project gets more attention from maintainers. permalink fedilink source parent [–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 10 points 5 months ago (1 child) You get your well measured response out of here. Reactive answers only permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] natecox@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 18 points 5 months ago They probably work a bit faster than the originals There are some commands doing string processing that have been rewritten to use SIMD instructions which makes them inherently faster. On the other hand there are other commands where they're performing worse than GNU coreutils: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Perf Over time they will probably close the performance gap for those outliers, but if the GNU coreutils maintainers wanted to accelerate the same commands with SIMD instructions they could also do that. There's no real reason why long-term one should be faster than the other, except for whichever project gets more attention from maintainers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 10 points 5 months ago (1 child) You get your well measured response out of here. Reactive answers only permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] natecox@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] natecox@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent