The "grep" and "wc" commands that are included in that table don't attempt to solve the problem. That wasn't clear to me on first reading. I suppose they are i

The "grep" and "wc" commands that are included in that table don't attempt to solve the problem. That wasn't clear to me on first reading. I suppose they are included as a baseline for reading a file and for tokenising strings into words. See https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/eb2a8adf21c895907a7abd14a66650eb1f83c1a4/benchmark.py#L23 https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/eb2a8adf21c895907...