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		nahuel0x on July 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy I'm not sure if it's really a problem for ncdu use case, but in Golang all the file I/O operations consume threads (in contrast with network ones), so is not easy to parallelize them: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6817 Btw, you forgot Rust :)

drran on July 25, 2021 [–]

In Rust, it's easy: https://github.com/bootandy/dust/blob/master/src/dir_walker....

(Dust is "du + rust").

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