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Re:Introduction to sed by dbbo on Friday October 07, 2011 @02:26PM (#3085227)
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/

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Re:Introduction to sed by dramaticus3 on Saturday October 08, 2011 @07:25AM (#3087681)
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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