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Kernighan and Van Wyk, "Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages" (1998)

AWK, Perl, Tcl, Scheme, C, Java, Limbo, Visual Basic

What if k scripting language was included in those experiments?

k3:

1. "Basic Loop Test"

   \t 1000000(1+)/0

2. "Ackermann's Function Test"

   \t {:[~x;y+1;~y;_f[x-1;1];_f[x-1;_f[x;y-1]]]}[3;7]

3. "Indexed Array Test"

   \t x(x;|x:!200000)

4. "String Test"

   \t f:{(x>#:){(i _ x),(1+i:_.5*#x)#x:,/("123";x;"456";x;"789")}/y};do[10;f[500000;"abcdef"]]

5. "Associative Array Test"

   \t {+/("0123456789abcdef"16_vs'!x)_lin$!x}40000

6. "File Copy Test"

   `f 0:(30000 _draw 300)#\:"king "       
   \t `f 0:0:`f

7. "Word Count Test"

   \t (#:;+/(+/1<':" "=)';+/#:')@\:0:`f

8. "File Reversal Test"

   \t `f 0:|0:`f

9. "Sum Test"

   `f 0:100000#,"-123.456" 
   \t +/0.0$0:`f