I replaced my standard Linux coreutils with Rust versions and it’s surprisingly faster

Feb 20, 2026 - 12:30
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I replaced my standard Linux coreutils with Rust versions and it’s surprisingly faster

The first time that familiar pause caught my attention was while I was using the sort command to run through a few hundred megabytes of log text. Until now, I had always ignored it. It comes up when I use du -sh to crawl project directories or ls -la in folders packed with build artifacts.

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