http://blog.asleson.org/tags/performance/ Recent content in Performance on blog.asleson.org Hugo en-us tony dot asleson@gmail.com (Tony Asleson) tony dot asleson@gmail.com (Tony Asleson) &copy; Copyright 1999-2025 Tony Asleson Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:38:18 -0500 http://blog.asleson.org/2026/04/13/rustbucket/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:38:18 -0500tony dot asleson@gmail.com (Tony Asleson) http://blog.asleson.org/2026/04/13/rustbucket/ <p>Sorting a terabyte of data in the late 1990s meant serious hardware, serious planning, and probably a serious budget approval process. Today you can do it on a workstation before lunch. I wanted to know how fast, so I wrote <a href="https://github.com/tasleson/rustbucket">rustbucket</a> to find out.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s a two-phase external sort implemented in Rust, built around <code>io_uring</code>, and named for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who has spent time with either Rust or storage systems.</p>