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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by cozzyd on Friday October 24, 2025 @11:21AM (#45695582) 

   $ /usr/bin/time date
   Fri Oct 24 10:20:17 AM CDT 2025
   0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2264maxresident)k
   0inputs+0outputs (0major+93minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Imagine how much faster it will be with threading!
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by rurban on Saturday October 25, 2025 @02:11PM (#45705854)
Rather think of cp, mv, install, backup. Copying files faster is still an ongoing effort, also in gnu coreutils
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by 1718627440 on Saturday October 25, 2025 @06:33PM (#45707517)
When I want to do stuff in parallel at the OS level, I rather user processes and e.g. GNU parallel.
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