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At least the GNU version of wc [0] uses AVX2 for line counting, if available. Though it falls back to a simple character-by-character loop if you ask for a char
by LegionMammal978 2y ago
At least the GNU version of wc [0] uses AVX2 for line counting, if available. Though it falls back to a simple character-by-character loop if you ask for a character count [not to be confused with a byte count!] or a word count.
[0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/wc_avx2.c?h=v9.5 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/wc_...