diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a18b910..16a8597 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ turbo-linecount 1.0 Copyright 2015, Christien Rioux *turbo-linecount* is a tool that simply counts the number of lines in a file, as fast as possible. It reads the file in large chunks into several threads and quickly scans the file for line endings. -Many times, you have to count the number of lines in text file on disk. The typical solution is to use 'wc -l' on the command line. 'wc' uses buffered streams to process the file, which has its advantages, but it is slower than direct memory mapped file access. You can't 'pipe' to +Many times, you have to count the number of lines in text file on disk. The typical solution is to use `wc -l` on the command line. `wc -l` uses buffered streams to process the file, which has its advantages, but it is slower than direct memory mapped file access. You can't 'pipe' to -How much faster is *turbo-linecount*? About 8 times faster than `wc` and 5 times faster than the naive Python implementation. +How much faster is *turbo-linecount*? About 8 times faster than `wc-l` and 5 times faster than the naive Python implementation. To use *turbo-linecount*, just run the command line: