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by pixelbeat__ 2329 days ago
A couple of points with comparing coreutils,

* recompiling with -march=native can give significant wins over more generic binaries provided by linux distros.

* parallel processing helps with bigger files, and it's easy enough to leverage the existing wc binary to process in parallel.

Both points are discussed at: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix-parallel-tools.html