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Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 Released With Faster base64: Outperforming GNU's base64


It was just a few days ago that Rust Coreutils 0.2 released with 'massive' performance gains and production-ready Ubuntu support

It was just a few days ago that Rust Coreutils 0.2 released with "massive" performance gains and production-ready Ubuntu support. GNU Coreutils 0.2.2 was primarily released so soon in order to deliver some important infrastructure fixes for more reliable distribution and deployment across different platforms. As outlined in the pull request this brings significant performance improvements for Rust Coreutils' base64 command.

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