On: Beating C with 70 lines of Go

[glandium]

Alternatively, here's my entry for "Beating GNU wc with GNU wc":

    $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=100m bs=1M count=100 2> /dev/null

    $ time wc -w 100m
    2319144 100m

    real 0m4.543s
    user 0m4.512s
    sys 0m0.029s

    $ time env LC_CTYPE=C wc -w 100m
    2308032 100m

    real 0m0.842s
    user 0m0.842s
    sys 0m0.000s

Your program is faster, though.