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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: wc(1)
To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:14:31 +0100 (MET)
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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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