Written by Rickard Lindberg 
in #c
I couldn't resist programming some C today.
The program that I worked on was a program to print unique lines:
rick@fedora:~/projects/cunique$ cat test.txt hello world hello there rick@fedora:~/projects/cunique$ ./cunique <test.txt hello world there
I managed to write it, but I also wanted it to perform well. When I try the above with a 1GB file it seems to take forever, but my Python equivalent finishes in around 5s.
That made me feel discouraged and made me think that I should work more on Computer, Enhance! before I think I have an idea about how to write performant C code.
However, I got to program C and that was fun.
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