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Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Busybox ls has 26 flags. GNU ls has 60.

[–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

fair, in that case the comparison is even since busybox provides a shell, awk, grep, wget among other 395 utils, uutils it is 115.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

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.