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He's comparing apples to oranges and reaching the conclusion that... yes, apples and oranges are different things. He's quite aware of this, and even points ou
by cperciva 7y ago
He's comparing apples to oranges and reaching the conclusion that... yes, apples and oranges are different things. He's quite aware of this, and even points out the tradeoff -- `sort | uniq -c` still works if your dataset doesn't fit into RAM.
- tuldia 7y agoCounting "words" vs sorting+counting "lines" are a complete different thing. Heck, forget about RAM, the output of both programs don't even match. That awk is pretty efficient and fast is no surprise ;)