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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
```

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What?

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Installation

Archlinux

There's an AUR package:

$ yaourt -S c-lolcat

Others

$ make && sudo make install

Why?

This lolcat clone is an attempt to reduce the world's carbon dioxide emissions by optimizing inefficient code. It's >10x as fast and <0.1% as large as the original one.

newton~/d/lolcat <3 dmesg>foo
newton~/d/lolcat <3 time upstream/bin/lolcat foo
13.51user 1.34system 0:15.99elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 10864maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+1716minor)pagefaults 0swaps
newton~/d/lolcat <3 time ./lolcat foo
0.02user 0.00system 0:00.09elapsed 34%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1936maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+117minor)pagefaults 0swaps

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