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coreutils-speedup
ali ~> wc -l
1000000 data_dupes.txt
ali ~> /bin/sort --version | grep coreutils
sort (coreutils) 5.2.1
ali ~> time bash -c "/bin/sort data_dupes.txt | uniq -c | sort -n > /dev/null"
12.91user 0.07system
ali ~> ~/bin/sort --version | grep coreutils
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.13
ali ~> time bash -c "~/bin/sort data_dupes.txt | ~/bin/uniq -c | ~/bin/sort -n > /dev/null"
3.86user 0.09system
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