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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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FreeBSD-2.x wc(1) is slow and ugly. NetBSD-current has the same code
as FreeBSD-1.1.5, faster and cleaner written.

Wolfram

time FreeBSD-2.1/wc /usr/share/dict/words
  234936  234936 2486813 /usr/share/dict/words
        6.96 real         6.48 user         0.40 sys
time FreeBSD-1.1.5/wc /usr/share/dict/words
  234936  234936 2486813 /usr/share/dict/words
        5.72 real         5.19 user         0.45 sys
time FreeBSD-2.1/wc  -l < /usr/share/dict/words
  234936
        6.99 real         6.38 user         0.46 sys
time FreeBSD-1.1.5/wc  -l < /usr/share/dict/words
  234936 
        2.97 real         2.50 user         0.42 sys