From d26ff9761b608def2a7004953c719eb96b3c1c2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:53:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bench: remove 'sort_random_strings'

---
 src/uu/sort/benches/sort_locale_bench.rs | 20 --------------------
 src/uucore/src/lib/features/benchmark.rs | 19 -------------------
 2 files changed, 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/uu/sort/benches/sort_locale_bench.rs b/src/uu/sort/benches/sort_locale_bench.rs
index d6a60effb8d..d00ec9f4ac8 100644
--- a/src/uu/sort/benches/sort_locale_bench.rs
+++ b/src/uu/sort/benches/sort_locale_bench.rs
@@ -129,26 +129,6 @@ fn sort_german_locale(bencher: Bencher) {
     });
 }
 
-/// Benchmark random strings of different lengths
-#[divan::bench]
-fn sort_random_strings(bencher: Bencher) {
-    let data = text_data::generate_random_strings(50_000, 50);
-    let file_path = setup_test_file(&data);
-    // Reuse the same output file across iterations to reduce filesystem variance
-    let output_file = NamedTempFile::new().unwrap();
-    let output_path = output_file.path().to_str().unwrap().to_string();
-
-    bencher.bench(|| {
-        unsafe {
-            env::set_var("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8");
-        }
-        black_box(run_util_function(
-            uumain,
-            &["-o", &output_path, file_path.to_str().unwrap()],
-        ));
-    });
-}
-
 /// Benchmark numeric sorting performance
 #[divan::bench]
 fn sort_numeric(bencher: Bencher) {
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/benchmark.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/benchmark.rs
index 0ca60d2d772..306ffdc3da7 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/benchmark.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/benchmark.rs
@@ -280,25 +280,6 @@ pub mod text_data {
         generate_data_from_words_simple(&base_words, num_lines)
     }
 
-    /// Generate random strings with mixed charset including accented characters
-    pub fn generate_random_strings(num_lines: usize, length: usize) -> Vec<u8> {
-        let mut data = Vec::new();
-        let charset =
-            "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789äöüÄÖÜßéèêëàâîïôûç";
-        let charset_bytes = charset.as_bytes();
-
-        for i in 0..num_lines {
-            let mut line = String::new();
-            for j in 0..length {
-                let idx = ((i * length + j) * 17 + 42) % charset_bytes.len();
-                line.push(charset_bytes[idx] as char);
-            }
-            line.push('\n');
-            data.extend_from_slice(line.as_bytes());
-        }
-        data
-    }
-
     /// Generate numeric data for benchmarking (simple sequential numbers)
     pub fn generate_numbers(count: usize) -> String {
         (1..=count)