loe

Very fast and yet another line ending (CRLF <-> LF) converter written in Rust. It is distributed both as a library and as a runnable program. Designed with performance in mind (works on byte buffers instead of strings).

Features

• CRLF -> LF and LF -> CRLF conversion
• Input encoding checking (Ascii, UTF-8, easily extensible)
• That's basically it

Usage

Command line

$ cargo install loe
$ loe --help  # prints usage
$ loe -o unix.txt dos.txt

Library

In Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
loe = "0.3"

In your source file:

extern crate loe;

use std::io::Cursor;

use loe::{process, Config};

fn convert(input: String) -> String {
    let mut input = Cursor::new(input);
    let mut output = Cursor::new(Vec::new());

    process(&mut input, &mut output, Config::default());
    String::from_utf8(output.into_inner()).unwrap()
}

See documentation to know more!

Benchmarks

The benchmark was performed with hyperfine tool using hyperfine '<command>' --prepare 'sync; echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' command. As dos2unix checks if the file is binary by default, -e ascii is used for loe commands as it imitates this behavior in loe.

Hardware & software configuration

Key	Value
File bench.txt	144 MB, 200k lines, ascii only
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200M CPU @ 2.50GHz
Disk	Samsung SSD 840
Kernel	4.20.5-arch1-1-ARCH
loe	0.2.0
dos2unix	7.4.0
hyperfine	1.3.0

Results

Command	Mean [ms]	Min…Max [ms]
loe -o out.txt bench.txt	1011.2 ± 59.9	968.5…1153.3
loe -e ascii -o out.txt bench.txt	962.9 ± 14.2	950.3…996.6
dos2unix -n bench.txt out.txt	1358.8 ± 94.1	1214.3…1502.9
loe -e ascii -n crlf -o out.txt bench.txt	1105.6 ± 18.0	1077.4…1135.2
unix2dos -n bench.txt out.txt	1763.6 ± 118.5	1636.4…1985.2
loe -e ascii -o bench.txt bench.txt	1086.4 ± 20.3	1050.0…1129.2
dos2unix bench.txt	1354.0 ± 81.1	1246.4…1484.0
tr -d '\r' < bench.txt > out.txt	472.4 ± 4.3	466.8…478.9

On average, loe is ~1.4 times faster than dos2unix. Bear in mind that dos2unix offers more features than loe. On the other hand, implementing them in loe should not affect the performance much.

License

loe is licensed under MIT. Feel free to use it, contribute or spread the word.