Rust Coreutils 0.2 Released with "Massive" Perf Gains, Production Ubuntu Support
8 months ago
- #Rust
- #Coreutils
- #Performance
- Rust Coreutils 0.2 released with significant performance improvements.
- First fully-internationalized release with better Unicode and non-UTF8 path support.
- Performance gains include tr command now 1.58x faster than GNU Coreutils.
- Improvements also seen in sort, cat, and other utilities.
- 538 passing tests, 16 more than previous release.
- Progress towards being a drop-in replacement for GNU Coreutils.
- Production-ready support for Ubuntu 25.10.
- Available for download on GitHub.