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Re:A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs by saagarjha on Sunday March 01, 2020 @11:09PM (#22461583)
Note that this does take a while; I let it go for about two hours before killing sort.
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Re:A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs by rovr138 on Monday March 02, 2020 @03:04PM (#22468322) 

     time gsort --parallel=2 -o $HOME/pwned-pass-sorted.txt pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-count-v5.txt
         2890.06 real      1400.86 user       165.54 sys
48mins

`gsort` is GNU sort on coreutils (not the one included on macOS).

This is on a Mac Mini 2011 (5,1) with the 2.3GHz i5.

They really have a lot of things built into these tools :)

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