Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust
Summary: I describe a simple interview problem (counting frequencies of unique words), solve it in various languages, and compare performance across them. For each language, I’ve included a simple, idiomatic solution as well as a more optimized approach via profiling.
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https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/#unix-shell
