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+# legacy-algorithm-comparison
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+This is a program that is used to compare speed of C, Fortran and Ada running their own verisons of the kmp search algorithm.
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+Just run `make` to generate an executable for each language.
+You can run the script in C, Fortran or Ada by running `./kmp-c`, `./kmp-fortran` and `./kmp-ada` respectively.
+
+You can also run `make clean` to clean up the directory.