Re: Most used words in current buffer

[Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com>]

On 07/20/2018 08:38 AM, Bob Newell wrote:
> By the way on a 2 MB file the elisp version runs in a few seconds.
> Hats off to the coder.

I am still looking to improve it.  For example, on a 4.5 MB text file,
the original version takes over 5 seconds to run, as measured using the
functions #'benchmark-run and #'benchmark-run-compiled.

Is it feasible to read words from the buffer and hash them directly from
there?  Or, going further, is there a better way to do this -- counting
words and producing the N most used -- using some other design, maybe
with some other data structure?

> Bob Newell
> Honolulu, Hawai`i

Udyant Wig
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