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LegionMammal978
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Exploring pre-1990 versions of wc(1) (2023)
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.
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https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/wc_...
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[0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/wc_...