Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Posted Jun 10, 2021 13:15 UTC (Thu) by moltonel (subscriber, #45207)In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by eru
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Who says those other processes are more urgent than your uutils process ? And what if there are a couple of other urgent single-threaded processes but you still have have your CPU cores available for the uutils process ?
Assigning priorities should be done at the system and kernel level, not at the process level. It's nice to have `-jN` style options with a "-j$(nproc)" default, but they remain a bit of a kludge. Instead we have nice, cgroups, etc. It'd be great if something like Apple's grand central dispatch became ubiquitous on Linux.
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