cm0002@piefed.world to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 28 天前Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomingswww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down12 cross-posted to: lobsters@lemmy.bestiver.selinux@sh.itjust.workslinux@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·27 天前Busybox ls has 26 flags. GNU ls has 60.
minus-squareSamueru_sama@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·27 天前fair, in that case the comparison is even since busybox provides a shell, awk, grep, wget among other 395 utils, uutils it is 115.
minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·27 天前I really don’t think these are clearly comparable. I would rather see two more similar projects with comparable functionality that are both attempting to optimize for program binary size.
minus-squareSamueru_sama@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·26 天前Well if you still insist. Just went to check how big is the GNU coreutils as a single static binary, it is 2.3 MiB in size check it out: https://pkgs.pkgforge.dev/repo/bincache/x86_64-linux/coreutils/nixpkgs/coreutils/
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lshas 26 flags. GNUlshas 60.fair, in that case the comparison is even since busybox provides a shell, awk, grep, wget among other 395 utils, uutils it is 115.
I really don’t think these are clearly comparable. I would rather see two more similar projects with comparable functionality that are both attempting to optimize for program binary size.
Well if you still insist. Just went to check how big is the GNU coreutils as a single static binary, it is 2.3 MiB in size
check it out: https://pkgs.pkgforge.dev/repo/bincache/x86_64-linux/coreutils/nixpkgs/coreutils/