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For new flags, this is easily solved by generating and compiling (via generic monomorphization, macros or build-time code generation) two versions of all the re

by devit 5y ago

For new flags, this is easily solved by generating and compiling (via generic monomorphization, macros or build-time code generation) two versions of all the relevant code (including of course any loops calling the relevant code) and switching the one that is executed depending on the value of the flag.

tomsmeding 5y ago
This is true, but also results in larger binaries. Elsewhere in this thread, it was noted that the coreutils compiled from the Rust code are already quite a bit bigger than the GNU counterparts. On many systems this might not matter much (and I guess it's fine if a software suite explicitly makes binary size a non-goal), but on some systems it does.