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		teamspirit on July 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator Nice job. I've been using dua[0] and have found it to be quite fast on my MacBook Pro. I'm interested to see how this compares. [0] https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli

201984 on July 11, 2024 [–]

I benchmarked against dua while developing, and the results are in the README. Note that dut uses Linux-specific syscalls, so it won't run on MacOS.

TL;DR: dut is 3x faster with warm caches, slightly faster on SSD, slightly slower on HDD.

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