[j1f4]

Pass the release flag when you build loc; `cargo build --release`.

I see ~5 seconds for loc and ~34 seconds for loccount to count a freshly cloned linux repository.

edit: woops, that was user time. These both spin all the cores. loc takes ~0.7 secs and loccount ~6.6 secs real time.

[dcu]

I'm not seeing any changes in my results. I'm testing in an old laptop, I guess that's why it's so slow.

My rustc version is 1.15.0 and go 1.8.

[j1f4]

If you are running the program with `cargo run` that takes the same --release flag. Could be the machine difference though.

[dcu]

I'm not. Are you testing with go 1.8 btw?

[j1f4]

Go 1.7.4 and rust 1.14. Interesting discrepancy in the relative speeds of the tools we are seeing.