30 Sep
2004
30 Sep
'04
6:26 a.m.
Just out of interest, I ran all of these suggested variations of the word count solution in Haskell head-to-head against each other. Here are the results, in seconds, on my machine (2.4GHz x86/Linux) for the suggested input (N=500) from the shootout site. All Haskell versions were compiled with ghc-5.04.2 -O2. original space-leaky 2.257 Greg Buchholz 1.619 * Sam Mason 0.594 Malcolm Wallace 0.457 Georg Martius 0.322 * Tomasz Zielonka 0.047 linux 'wc' 0.085 Those marked with a * gave the wrong number of words. The really interesting thing is that Tomasz's solution is twice as fast as the standard Gnu implementation! Regards, Malcolm