Chris Siebenmann on Nostr: This is my face when I realize that on a big multi-core machine, I want to do 'sed ...
This is my face when I realize that on a big multi-core machine, I want to do 'sed ... | sed ... | sed ...' instead of the nominally more efficient 'sed -e ... -e ... -e ...' because sed is single-threaded and if I have several costly patterns, multiple seds will parallelize them across those multiple cores.
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