Faster Directory Size Calculator
May 22, 2021
A faster version of Linux/Unix “du -hs” command implemented in Rust/Go/C# Find out fastest Rust/Go/C# code calculating total disk usage of a directory under Windows and Linux.
This is an experiment inspired by https://github.com/artempyanykh/rdu project implementing a fast directory disk usage calculator, similar to unix/linux du tool but using rust-lang. Measurements are taken with Hyperfine v1.11.0: https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine. All measurements are with warm disk cache.
Linux: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) under WSL2 (Linux 4.…
