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fsiefken·Mar 2, 2023

Some utils are faster already, and they are working on cp and mv progress bars. From the fosdem 2023 presentation: https://sylvestre.ledru.info/presentations/coreutils-fosdem-... == Example #1: $ hyperfine -r 10 \ "target/release/coreutils sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; \ target/release/coreutils sort shakespeare.txt.rand > /dev/null" \ "sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; \ sort shakespeare.txt > /dev/null" é [...] Summary 'target/release/coreutils sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; target/release/coreutils sort shakespeare.txt.rand > /dev/null' ran 4.63 ± 0.19 times faster than 'sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; sort shakespeare.txt > /dev/null' To be fair, we can be slower too Example #3: $ hyperfine "seq 18446744073708551615 18446744073709551615 | factor" \ "./tar

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get/release/coreutils seq 18446744073708551615 18446744073709551615| ./target/release/coreutils factor" [...] 'seq 18446744073708551615 18446744073709551615 | factor' ran 5.08 ± 0.01 times faster than './target/release/coreutils seq 18446744073708551615 18446 === Redox-OS is rewriting the BSD coreutils in Rust for their own OS. https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils I wonder what the most efficient and usable alternative operating system tradeoff choice tradeoff would be, perhaps mesalock (a linux with userspace tools compiled with rust) syllable, haiku, redox, menuet64/kolibri, serenity, icaros desktop, postmarketos, drauger, mesalock

In Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD

empath75·Feb 23, 2018

already been done: https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils

In Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and Its Applications Today

shmerl·Dec 5, 2017

> I think it's a fair question to ask the Rust folks why they haven't just started from scratch and built their own unix-like operating system. Some did: https://www.redox-os.org > Oh wait, that's right, none of them has even gotten around to writing a replacement for ls, grep, They did that for some utils: https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils > This seems to be a more reasonable approach that trying to force an existing operating system to adopt their language. I don't think anyone is forcing to adopt anything here. The question was about integrating languages like Rust in OpenBSD.

In Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?

shmerl·Dec 4, 2017

> I wasn't implying. I was stating a fact. There has been no attempt to move the smallest parts of the ecosystem, to provide replacements for base POSIX utilities. Apparently Redox developers disagree :) https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils These are even based on BSD coreutils.

In Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?

rhelmer·Mar 22, 2016

Redox has been working on smaller, more BSD-like versions of the basic Unix utilities, also written in Rust: https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils I am excited to see this as I was working on a similar project last year (rewriting the BSD userland in Rust), but it's from pre-1.0 Rust so not really as idiomatic as what is coming out of the Redox project.

In Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils