Rusty counting

A toy project for writing a fast and convenient alternative to

sort | uniq -c | sort -k1 -rn

Installation

Install it yourself with cargo:

cargo install --git https://github.com/juliangehring/count

Benchmarking

An anecdotal benchmark: Count the top-level domains of the Alexa top 1 million websites. Measured with hyperfine.

make benchmark

Tool	Time [ms]
rusty count (u8)	35
awk	160
unix tools	3842