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		DenseComet on March 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” onl... Based on his timings, rust achieved a 20x speedup vs a 4x speedup if he used mawk.

hedora on March 4, 2019 [–]

Yep, and adding gnu parallel or xargs to the mix would give a # of cores speedup, which would make mawk faster than the single-threaded rust on a > 6 core machine (roughly).

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