tinierfetch/.github/README.md

tinierfetch

a self-imposed code-golf challenge on following qualifiers

1. speed
2. binary size
3. compilation duration
4. (optional) lines of code

depends

you will need TERM, LANG, USER, SHELL environmental variables to be set, they usually are.

• for C++, see the Makefile for available jobs.
• for Rust, the --release profile handles the optimizations for you
• for Go, you will want to pass -ldflags="-s -w" to go build

usage

a helper script is provided below. it will build each program and compare them using Hyperfine

it fits in a QR code

todo

• more languages:
  • bash
  • zig
  • python
  • ruby
  • haskell
  • asm
  • node

results

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative	Compilation Duration [s]	Notes
bin/tinierfetch-go	1.3 ± 0.1	1.1	1.6	1.23 ± 0.12	0.15	-s and -w ldflags are used
bin/tinierfetch-rs	1.1 ± 0.1	0.9	1.3	1.00	3.17	see Cargo.toml for opitimization specs
bin/tinierfetch-cpp-size	1.5 ± 0.1	1.3	1.8	1.43 ± 0.11	0.24	g++ optimized for binary size
bin/tinierfetch-cpp-speed	1.5 ± 0.1	1.3	1.8	1.43 ± 0.11	0.10	g++ optimized for speed

all programs take around 0.001 to 0.002s to execute, have been tested on R5 3600x and R7 7730U CPUs

verdict

Use

• Rust, for speed
• C++, for optimized size
• Go, if you hate yourself (or can't tolerate Rust syntax)

contributing

You know something better? Do feel free to contribute additional languages, improvements or QoL changes to the repository.

Got different results? Open an issue, prove me wrong mathematically.