Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:15:18 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wc(1) Message-ID: <199601151015.LAA20061@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <199601100713.SAA00480@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199601100713.SAA00480@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans writes:
>Freshly compiled statically linked wc's only show the 20% unimprovement
>for plain wc here under -current. wc -l is only 6% slower.
The algorithm is broken. If reading from stdin wc [-lc]
always calculate words.
$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Jan 13 20:19:39 MET 1996 root@freebsd:/usr4/src/src/sys/compile/FREEBSD i386
$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | time ./wc-netbsd/wc -c
2486813
0.38 real 0.01 user 0.11 sys
$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | time ./wc-freebsd/wc -c
2486813
1.05 real 0.76 user 0.04 sys
Wolfram
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