On 31/10/2007, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe I have a relatively slow computer, so I get more speedup. Keep in mind, > that > disk time is constant. >
I'm also not sure if FPC compiler parameters where used. I did. I compiled as: fpc project1.pas Anyway, here is the Hash Table vs No Hash Table results. Quite a difference in speed when using the hash table. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:word_parser$ time ./project1_nohashtable Word count:126944 Unique word count:11793 real 0m0.291s user 0m0.276s sys 0m0.004s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:word_parser$ time ./project1 Word count:126944 Unique word count:11793 real 0m0.196s user 0m0.132s sys 0m0.008s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:word_parser$ time perl ./project1.perl Word count: 126944 Unique word count: 11793 real 0m0.292s user 0m0.268s sys 0m0.000s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:word_parser$ Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal