With Ubuntu changing to the Rust implementation of coreutils, what does that mean for performance?

  • Xanza@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    The performance you’re dealing with here is in the tens of milliseconds possibly hundreds if you’re lucky. Anyone seriously pursuing this issue from the angle of performance genuinely doesn’t understand the deep rooted issues here.

    If you’re so incredibly hard up for compute time that it’s critical for you to squeeze out the extra 1/10 of a second from your system utilities then you need to shut your fucking computer down and go touch grass.

    I mean even if this saves you 30 seconds a day 50 weeks a year 5 days a week that’s 2 hours per year it’s saving you… I’d rather slow fuck the two hours and get an extra 2 hours of pay.

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      7 days ago

      this was me watching some of the cheering when neofetch got archived, people complaining “good, neofetch is too slow” – WTF were you doing with neofetch where speed was a factor?!

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          7 days ago

          when the last message was “Have taken up farming.”, kinda hard to hold anything against them …

      • Leaflet@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        On some systems neofetch would actually run quite slow. Even on my fast system it would occasionally take a second because it hung on one step.

    • noli@lemm.ee
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      7 days ago

      I’d take those tens of milliseconds. That shit scales and I’ve seen infra in the scale of millions more-or-less glued together by shell scripts and coreutils/busybox.