Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:14:31 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wc(1) Message-ID: <199601100814.JAA01033@mordillo> In-Reply-To: <199601091615.RAA00359@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Jan 9, 96 05:15:04 pm
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hasn't Wolfram Schneider said ? ...
>
> FreeBSD-2.x wc(1) is slow and ugly. NetBSD-current has the same code
> as FreeBSD-1.1.5, faster and cleaner written.
>
> Wolfram
>
> time FreeBSD-2.1/wc /usr/share/dict/words
> 234936 234936 2486813 /usr/share/dict/words
> 6.96 real 6.48 user 0.40 sys
> time FreeBSD-1.1.5/wc /usr/share/dict/words
> 234936 234936 2486813 /usr/share/dict/words
> 5.72 real 5.19 user 0.45 sys
> time FreeBSD-2.1/wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words
> 234936
> 6.99 real 6.38 user 0.46 sys
> time FreeBSD-1.1.5/wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words
> 234936
> 2.97 real 2.50 user 0.42 sys
>
are you doing any scientific calculations using wc - because you need a very fast one ? :-)
t
p.s.: but i agree - a faster and cleaner would be better
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