Longest Word Test

The Rules

1. Solution may be in any language and use any implementation or algorithm
2. Solution must find the longest word in a corpus. Words are only considered to be space and newline delimited text.
3. Solution is timed from first loading/reading of the corpus to the return of the longest word and/or length of the word.

• Parsing arguments is not counted
• Runtime initialization is not counted
• Time should be measured in MS

Note: Solutions are currently divided into two categories: single-threaded and concurrent.

How to participate

Write your solution, add your name to the top, and send a pull request. It would be super awesome if you also updated the Dockerfile and the run_tests.sh to include your submission, but that's not necessary.

Leaderboard

Single-Threaded

Name	Language	Time (ms)	Notes
@dnesbitt03qub	C++	477	Striding implementation
@pard68	Rust	1041
@pard68	Rust	1083	HashTable
Jeffrey Corcoran	C#	2275
@bbriggs	Go	2849
@zombeej	JavaScript	3941
@drewpearce	Cython	6581	Loop w/ longest
@specs	Python	12245	Comprehensions
@samwi	JRuby	13565
@specs	Python	14444	Loop and sort
@specs	Python	16257	Loop w/ longest
@samwi	Ruby	24383
@pard68	Bash	~5543	Native speed - Not running in Docker

Concurrent

Name	Language	Time (ms)	Notes
@pard68	Rust	164	HashTable
Jeffrey Corcoran	C#	716

Methodology