hur.st's bl.aagh

cw is a fast Rust reimplementation of the classic Unix wc command, featuring fast paths for most common modes of operation, including SIMD-accelerated line and UTF-8 codepoint counting via the bytecount crate (closing issue #41 there in the process).

It also supports multithreading, because of course it does.

Even in single-threaded mode it is almost always much faster than either FreeBSD or GNU wc implementations.

-% wc *
      33     182    1378 README
     133     133     620 eign
     281     287    1984 freebsd
    1308    1308    8546 propernames
  235970  235970 2493838 web2
   76205  121847 1012731 web2a
  235970  235970 2493838 words
  549900  595697 6012935 total

-% cw *
      33     182    1378 README
     133     133     620 eign
     281     287    1984 freebsd
    1308    1308    8546 propernames
  235970  235970 2493838 web2
   76205  121847 1012731 web2a
  235970  235970 2493838 words
  549900  595697 6012935 total

-% hyperfine "cw *" "wc *"
Benchmark #1: cw *
  Time (mean ± σ):      29.9 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 27.0 ms, System: 3.2 ms]
  Range (min … max):    29.7 ms …  30.6 ms

Benchmark #2: wc *
  Time (mean ± σ):      55.6 ms ±   0.3 ms    [User: 53.0 ms, System: 3.1 ms]
  Range (min … max):    55.2 ms …  56.9 ms

Summary
  'cw *' ran
    1.86 ± 0.01 times faster than 'wc *'

-% hyperfine "cw --threads=8 *" "wc *"
Benchmark #1: cw --threads=8 *
  Time (mean ± σ):      14.9 ms ±   0.8 ms    [User: 28.2 ms, System: 6.0 ms]
  Range (min … max):    13.9 ms …  19.5 ms

Benchmark #2: wc *
  Time (mean ± σ):      55.5 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 52.4 ms, System: 3.4 ms]
  Range (min … max):    55.2 ms …  56.0 ms

Summary
  'cw --threads=8 *' ran
    3.72 ± 0.21 times faster than 'wc *'

And like FreeBSD wc, it supports SIGINFO, so you can do this:

-% cw -c /dev/zero
load: 0.36  cmd: cw 13254 [running] 1.18r 0.11u 1.03s 10% 3384k
 18183847936 /dev/zero
load: 0.36  cmd: cw 13254 [running] 1.99r 0.17u 1.73s 18% 3384k
 30805032960 /dev/zero
load: 0.36  cmd: cw 13254 [running] 2.64r 0.22u 2.34s 23% 3384k
 40920219648 /dev/zero
load: 0.36  cmd: cw 13254 [running] 3.41r 0.27u 3.12s 28% 3384k
 52898824192 /dev/zero

(That’s me hitting Ctrl-t 4 times - Linux users will have to send it a SIGUSR1 instead).