With the small coding contest some weeks ago we got many comments and it’s worth to make a conclusion for the solutions in different languages. What language is easier to write, has better memory usage or better performance?
To clarify the question:
Remove duplicate lines from a file
We have a text file with 13 Million entries, all numbers in the range from 1.000.000 to 100.000.000. Each line has only one number. The file is unordered and we have about 1% duplicate entries. Remove the duplicates.
Be efficient with the memory usage and / or find a performant solution. The script should be started with the filename and linenumber and print the result to stdout.Read more
