Ralf Mler wrote:

>tried with Hash instead of Array: 
>ram@lilith:~/src/ruby$time ruby -e 'str=STDIN.gets; h=Hash.new();  (0..9).each 
>{|i| h[i.to_s] = 0}; (0..str.length-1).each {|i| h[str[i..i]] += 1 }; h.each 
>{|k,v| print "#{k} #{v}\n"} ' < pi.out | sort
>  
>
why@stungun$ time ruby -n -e 'c={};$_.each_byte{|b|c[b]||=0; c[b]+=1}; 
c.sort.each {|k,v| puts "#{k - ?0} #{v}"}' < pi.out
0 3454
1 3514
2 3358
3 3452
4 3483
5 3510
6 3488
7 3431
8 3482
9 3464

real    0m0.052s
user    0m0.051s
sys     0m0.000s

same idea as yours.  just runs 3x swift.

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