Beating haskell with C

An attemp to measure a simple, a multithreaded, and a unicode-aware version of wc written in C compared with the optimized Haskell implementation in ChrisPenner/wc.

Unicode version is forthcoming, but will be a cleaned up version of https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-05-23-unicode-icu.html#counting-words-and-graphemes

To run

The fastest version is in threads.c.

make
./threads N /path/to/file

# where N is the number of threads to use