From: "SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1)" <barry_shultz@...>
Date: 2001-01-02T16:01:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8499] Re: speedup of anagram finder

> Unpack.  The following is based on all of /usr/dict/words, using
> letter frequencies derived directly from that file:
> 
> 			 user     system      total        real
>    [first reports removed]
>    frequency        14.470000   0.000000  14.470000 ( 14.483800)
>    orig_primes      24.450000   0.010000  24.460000 ( 24.458457)
>    unpack           15.550000   0.050000  15.600000 ( 15.613195)
> 

I ran "frequency", based on the frequency Gotoken sent, and using the
first 10K words from /usr/dict/words. Unpack still wins in this situation 
( and I did not do any downcase-ing ).

                user     system      total        real
prime3      1.432000   0.010000   1.442000 (  1.442000)
unpack      1.021000   0.000000   1.021000 (  1.022000)
frequency   1.101000   0.000000   1.101000 (  1.101000)
unpack      0.962000   0.000000   0.962000 (  0.962000)
prime3      1.151000   0.000000   1.151000 (  1.152000)
frequency   1.101000   0.000000   1.101000 (  1.101000)