beat c in fefes "competition"

[enthus1ast]

Hi,

fefe (a german blogger, [http://blog.fefe.de](http://blog.fefe.de)/ ) has 
called for a little benchmark. The challenge is to count words in an webserver 
logfile (from stdin), then output them ordered like so:
    
    
    150 foobaa
    80  faa
    12  www
    
    
    Run

Blog entries:
    

  * [https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a2689de5](https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a2689de5)
  * [https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b7c295e7](https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b7c295e7)


Benchmarks:
    

  * 
[http://ptrace.fefe.de/wp/timings2019.txt](http://ptrace.fefe.de/wp/timings2019.txt)
  * 
[https://ptrace.fefe.de/wp/timings.txt](https://ptrace.fefe.de/wp/timings.txt)



Competing scripts:
    

  * [https://ptrace.fefe.de/wp](https://ptrace.fefe.de/wp)/



My idiomatic version: 
    
    
    ## compile with: nim c -d:release --opt:speed --passL:-s wp_idiomatic.nim
    import tables, strutils
    
    proc main() =
      var countTable = newCountTable[string]()
      var line: string = ""
      while true:
        if not readLine(stdin, line): break
        for word in line.split():
          countTable.inc(word)
      countTable.sort()
      for key, val in countTable.pairs():
        echo val, " ", key
    main()
    
    
    Run

for my testfile i appended a few nginx logs together:
    
    
    292M        /tmp/bigger.log
    
    
    Run

timings of the c version:
    
    
    time cat /tmp/bigger.log | ./a.out
    real        0m2,373s
    user        0m2,276s
    sys 0m0,276s
    
    
    Run

timings of the nim idiomatic version:
    
    
    time cat /tmp/bigger.log | ./wp_idiomatic
    real        0m2,869s
    user        0m2,766s
    sys 0m0,280s
    
    
    
    Run

which i think is already a good speed (for this naive approach)?! So can one 
beat the c version? :D