kryps

No, you can't do the same thing in Rust, because Rust crates and the standard library generally use the global allocator and not any arena you want to use in your code.

The paper does not make that claim. According to the paper the probability of recovering the correct value of a single bit is 96% for a pristine drive and 56% for a used drive, both better than a coin toss. Of course the probability gets worse if one tries to recover more bits (but still better than n coin tosses for n bits).

Can we have " (2020)" added to the title?

You are not doing a release build.

WSL2, correct.

Yep, see below. With WSL and an ext4 virtual disk it takes only 29 seconds. Still quite a bit more than the 22 seconds on the Macbook.

cargo install on WSL2 uses the non-mapped home directory, which is on an ext4 virtual disk. That is probably one reason why it is six seconds faster.

Nope, pure compile time on a Core i7-10750H with Windows and Rust 1.52.1, antivirus disabled. WSL did not make much of a difference though (29 seconds).

It does not just feel faster, in many cases it is faster.

E.g. compiling Rust code is so much faster that it is not even funny. cargo install -f ripgrep takes 22 seconds on a Mac Book Air with M1, same on a hexacore 2020 Dell XPS 17 with 64GB RAM takes 34 seconds.