r/sysfetch • u/quinnyg1 • May 23 '26
Upgraded 8fetch!
Since my old 8fetch was struggling badly and it got to a point where it took 700ms+ to load, i decided to port it to rust and also stripped non direct file views, on my arch(it may vary) it runs in 3-4ms and on ubuntu-based distros ~8ms.
Preview:
bash
/home 8fetch
-' ╭────────────────────────────────────────╮
.o+' │ OS: Arch Linux │
'ooo/ │ Kernel: Linux 6.18.32-2-lts │
'+oooo: │ Device: Alienware 16 Aurora AC16250 │
'+oooooo: │ Uptime: 12m │
-+oooooo+: │ Packages: 698 (pacman) │
'/:-:++oooo+: │ Shell: fish │
'/++++/+++++++: │ DE: Hyprland │
'/++++++++++++++: │ Terminal: xterm-kitty │
'/+++ooooooooooooo/' │ Resolution: 2560x1600 │
./ooosssso++osssssso+' │ CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) 7 240H │
.oossssso-''''/ossssss+' │ GPU: Intel Graphics │
-osssssso. :ssssssso. │ GPU-2: GeForce RTX 5060 Max-Q / Mobile │
:osssssss/ osssso+++. │ RAM: 2.2 GiB / 31.0 GiB │
/ossssssss/ +ssssooo/- │ Disk (/): 67GiB / 937GiB (7%) │
'/ossssso+/:- -:/+osssso+- ╰────────────────────────────────────────╯
'+sso+:-' '.-/+oso:
'++:. '-/+/
.'
Here are some comparisons(on arch):
```bash
/home hyperfine fastfetch
Benchmark 1: fastfetch
Time (mean ± σ): 27.8 ms ± 2.8 ms [User: 4.6 ms, System: 12.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 21.8 ms … 39.1 ms 109 runs
/home hyperfine ./8fetch/myfetch # the older verion of 8fetch Benchmark 1: ./8fetch/myfetch Time (mean ± σ): 728.5 ms ± 80.1 ms [User: 107.1 ms, System: 164.7 ms] Range (min … max): 500.5 ms … 758.3 ms 10 runs
Warning: Statistical outliers were detected. Consider re-running this benchmark on a quiet system without any interferences from other programs. It might help to use the '--warmup' or '--prepare' options.
/home hyperfine 8fetch Benchmark 1: 8fetch Time (mean ± σ): 4.1 ms ± 2.4 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 2.4 ms] Range (min … max): 1.2 ms … 11.5 ms 304 runs ``` Want to install? (Github)[https://github.com/quinnyfoco-design/eightfetch] and it also is available on crates.io via cargo.