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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Hardware support crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates to interface with specific CPU or other hardware features.” Below are the 6 crates in it among the 1000 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, cpufeatures leads Hardware support with 4,097,423 real downloads a day (few direct dependents and steady). 1 of the 6 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 1.7% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
6 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpufeaturesPulled in | 4,097,423 | 81 | 59d | +6% | 1.1B | |
| r-efiPulled in | 2,051,196 | 14 | 2mo | +9% | 438M | |
| portable-atomicEstablished | 1,871,271 | 512 | 2mo | -2% | 532M | |
| num_cpusWidely used | 1,159,443 | 2,795 | 17mo | -3% | 640M | |
| cmovPulled in | 852,311 | 3 | 5mo | +22% | 116M | |
| num_threadsPulled in | 566,226 | 11 | 7d | +2% | 264M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io
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