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dbbo on Oct 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introduction to sed

The copyright section of sed(1) suggests that the Debian package sed (I'm running wheezy) is Gnu sed 4.2.1[1]. Plan9 sed is also available in the 9base package. I'm running perl 5.12.4 (also from Debian testing). I don't see any significant difference in speed with vanilla 5.14.1 and the commands I mentioned earlier.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/

dramaticus3 on Oct 8, 2011 [–]

Turn on locale UTF-8 for GNU software before benchmarking it to compare with Plan9 software.

GNU stuff gets a speed improvement from assuming single byte characters.

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