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run at Mon Jan  2 21:27:33 CET 2023
run on macOS 13.0.1 arm64 Darwin
benchmark v0.6.7
LANG = en_US.UTF-8

cut the first 20 characters of each line: using awk

Command: 'awk {print substr($0,1,20)}'
Before: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
After : 'Lorem ipsum dolor si'

• Binary: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gawk/5.2.0/bin/gawk (652K)
• Version: GNU Awk 5.2.0, API 3.2, (GNU MPFR 4.1.0-p13, GNU MP 6.2.1)
• Throughput speed: 298 MB/sec
• Invocation speed: 208 ops/sec (4.80 millisec)

cut the first 20 characters of each line: using cut

Command: 'cut -c1-20'
Before: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
After : 'Lorem ipsum dolor si'

• Binary: /usr/bin/cut (20K)
• Throughput speed: 44 MB/sec
• Invocation speed: 778 ops/sec (1.29 millisec)

cut the first 20 characters of each line: using gcut

Command: 'gcut -c1-20'
Before: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
After : 'Lorem ipsum dolor si'

• Binary: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/coreutils/9.1/bin/gcut (92K)
• Version: cut (GNU coreutils) 9.1
• Throughput speed: 592 MB/sec
• Invocation speed: 706 ops/sec (1.42 millisec)

cut the first 20 characters of each line: using ${line:0:20}

Command: '${line:0:20}'
Before: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
After : 'Lorem ipsum dolor si' (LANG = en_US.UTF-8)

• Throughput speed: 7 MB/sec
• Invocation speed: 8475 ops/sec (0.12 millisec)