uutils/findutils

Leverage parallel capabilities

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#112 opened on Sep 7, 2021

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good first issue

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Rust is amazing at parallelism, we could probably leverage that to run the analysis in parallel: https://github.com/uutils/findutils/blob/ac576f50b0acedf59a7d64144787fa3129c635bd/src/find/mod.rs#L156

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Research direction
Analyze the code at the linked line and implement parallel execution using Rust's concurrency primitives such as rayon or threads.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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RustGit
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75