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Exercise: Word Frequencies

Consider a program wfreq to process text files (via stdin):
  • treat the input file as a sequence of words
  • count the number of times each word occurs
  • print a list of words and their occurrence frequencies
Use the /usr/bin/time command to measure execution cost of wfreq
  • on small, medium and "large" text files
Determine the approximate cost per byte of input.