You could also add comparision to [python-lolcat](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lolcat): ```bash $ dmesg > foo $ time python-lolcat foo real 0m1.503s user 0m1.609s sys 0m0.012s $ time c-lolcat foo real 0m0.055s user 0m0.051s sys 0m0.000s ```