$ time ./wc.py wc.pl wc.py large.txt
     21      58     494 wc.pl
     17      74     518 wc.py
 382230 1290003 11930691 large.txt
 382268 1290135 11931703 total

real    0m6.157s
user    0m6.046s
sys     0m0.124s