On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:30:57PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote: > Sometimes, my Twitter feed coughs up some cool articles, like > this one: "Performance comparison: counting words in Python, > Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust” > > https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/ > > The Awk solution was by far the shortest by line count. Since > the runtime for all the different solutions was a few seconds or > less, Awk was probably the fastest because it took the least time > to code. :D > What about "wc -w" ?
ulrich lauther