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Thanks for explaining my own comment to me.

Not explaining, trying to tell that you are comparing apples to oranges and making a conclusion based on that.

Also, you don't need to spawn a subshell nor feed sort via stdin in the first example :)

He's comparing apples to oranges and reaching the conclusion that... yes, apples and oranges are different things. He's quite aware of this, and even points out the tradeoff -- `sort | uniq -c` still works if your dataset doesn't fit into RAM.

Counting "words" vs sorting+counting "lines" are a complete different thing.

Heck, forget about RAM, the output of both programs don't even match.

That awk is pretty efficient and fast is no surprise ;)

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