Show HN: A fast lines-of-code counter written in Rust

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Just cloned and cargo built it. Took a test repo and ran both loc and cloc to do a side by side comparison. Surprisingly there are HUGE discrepancies reported. Also loc took 2-3 seconds to finish whereas cloc took almost a minute, so in my case it's 20-30x speed improvement not the 100x that they claimed.

I replied on github, but can you confirm that you ran loc with a warm cache? If not, can you elaborate on what hardware you're running on?

I'm going to have to do more digging on the discrepancies later, but I'm not confident the errors are on my end. I'm not 100% sure their not, but cloc definitely isn't perfect either.

edit: is your test repo open source by any chance?

devy replied on github and with a warm cache loc completed in ~0.28 seconds, so something like 180x faster.

Loc > Tokei

Loc Ftw

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