Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings
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- #Rust
- #Ubuntu
- #Performance
- Ubuntu 25.10's transition to Rust Coreutils has revealed performance issues compared to GNU Coreutils.
- Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 improved base64 performance after an Ubuntu developer identified the disparity.
- A bug report highlighted cksum being up to 17x slower for large files, with patches in progress.
- The sort command in Rust Coreutils struggles with large one-line files, another performance issue.
- Developers are working to resolve these issues before Ubuntu 25.10's stable release in October.
- The focus is on ensuring stability ahead of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release in April.