Here are the current results for the "count the dictionary words in a
file" programs submitted thus far.
All programs were executed on my Ubuntu 5.10 system:
IBM Thinkpad T43 - Intel Pentium M 2.26GHz
I used /usr/share/dict/words as the dictionary (which contains 96274 words).
I used an uncompressed copy of /usr/share/doc/bash/changelog.gz as the
input file (which contains 42362 words).
C++ (GCC 4.0.2 with -O2)
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LOC: 34
Best Time: 0.804
Worst Time: 2.087
Avg. Time: 1.44
Java (Sun 1.5)
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LOC: 35
Best Time: 1.247
Worst Time: 1.622
Avg. Time: 1.54
Ruby 1.8.3 ("scripted" version)
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LOC: 18
Best Time: 1.966
Worst Time: 3.297
Avg. Time: 2.35
Python 2.4.2 (bad algorithm?)
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LOC: 6
Best Time: 31.724
Worst Time: 32.417
Avg. Time: 31.98
I'm still trying to get the lisp version to work (I have a load
error). I'd like a good PHP and Perl version as well as a better
Python version (the python version isn't producing acurate output and
is WAY slower than is reasonable).
-Bryan
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