C troglodytes absolutely annihilated by a toy language

https://0xd34df00d.me/posts/2020/02/destroying-c-with-20-lines-of-haskell.html

The coreutils wc is slow because its handle widechars and multiple encodings with full compatibility with everything that can run under linux. Look at the multibyte handling sections.
>>2 *10 people
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/wc.c