first: setup

setting up repo.

benchmarks/bench-coreutils.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# bench-coreutils.sh — benchmark the GNU Coreutils wc implementation against
+# the release build of fastwc. Fails fast: the moment fastwc is slower than
+# (or disagrees with) coreutils wc, a human readable report is written to
+# FAILED-benchmark.txt and this script exits non-zero.
+#
+# usage: ./bench-coreutils.sh
+set -u
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+# shellcheck source=std.sh
+source "$SCRIPT_DIR/std.sh"
+
+checkfastwc
+checkwc coreutils
+BENCH_NAME="coreutils"
+
+run_benchmark_suite