lolcat/README.md
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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?
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaseg/lolcat/master/LOLCat-Rainbow.jpg)
## Screenshot
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaseg/lolcat/master/screenshot.png)
![](./sl.gif)
## Installation
### Archlinux
There's an [AUR package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-lolcat):
```bash
$ yaourt -S c-lolcat
```
### Others
```bash
$ 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.
```bash
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
```