$ time wc -l very_huge.file
100000001 very_huge.file

real  0m0.781s
user  0m0.521s
sys   0m0.260s

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$ time ./MCE-1.608/examples/wc.pl -l very_huge.file
100000001 very_huge.file

real  0m0.612s
user  0m0.633s
sys   0m1.522s