Andrew Healey 8/7/2025

Optimizing My Disk Usage Program

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This technical article follows up on a fast macOS disk usage program called 'dumac'. The author explains how feedback led to a 28% performance improvement by replacing the Tokio async runtime with Rayon's work-stealing thread pool. This change reduced thread scheduling overhead and optimized access to data structures, making the tool more efficient for CPU-bound, blocking I/O operations.

Optimizing My Disk Usage Program

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