Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?

  • eleijeep@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    2 days ago

    They probably work a bit faster than the originals

    There are some commands doing string processing that have been rewritten to use SIMD instructions which makes them inherently faster. On the other hand there are other commands where they’re performing worse than GNU coreutils: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Perf

    Over time they will probably close the performance gap for those outliers, but if the GNU coreutils maintainers wanted to accelerate the same commands with SIMD instructions they could also do that. There’s no real reason why long-term one should be faster than the other, except for whichever project gets more attention from maintainers.