vwc doesn't implement locale support, thus, the comparison with GNU wc is incorrect about vwc

[schicho]

I know.

See the second to last sentence in my conclusion.
If you read the other articles I mentioned in the introduction, you will see that all the other 'clones' are also written in the same feature-reduced way.

Like in the other articles, this is not meant to be a V is better than C article. I wrote a very simplified version of the complete GNU wc. The only goal was to be faster, but still have the same results as GNU wc on pure ascii text.

[esyr]

That's why I see it important to perform all the comparison runs with the C locale, so the results are actually meaningful.

[schicho]

Ahh, now I see what you mean.
I didn't know about this 'locale' at first, nor did I know that it would make a difference.

Thank you for your note.
I will update the benchmark soon!

[schicho]

I updated the benchmarks.

[esyr]

Thank you; I don't have Ubuntu 20.04 at hand, but I presume, however, that memory usage has also been changed similarly to my runs.