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From: dick@cs.vu.nl (Dick Grune)
Subject: New, faster, version of similarity tester SIM
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Version 2.8 of the Software and Text Similarity Tester SIM is improved
considerably for speed, for large files (> 1 000 000 characters) and for large
values of the run length (> 100):

Version 2.8:
time sim_text -n -r 300 concatenated_manpages
       80.2 real        63.7 user         5.9 sys  

Version 2.7:
time sim_text -n -r 300 concatenated_manpages
      377.3 real       342.5 user         6.0 sys  

where  concatenated_manpages  is the concatenation of /usr/man/man?/*
(5491740 chars, 928359 tokens).

Available from:
	http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html
	ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/similarity_tester/

Enjoy!

Dick Grune					| email: dick@cs.vu.nl
Vrije Universiteit				| ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick
de Boelelaan 1081				| http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick
1081 HV  Amsterdam, the Netherlands		| tel: +31 20 444 7744
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