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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Benchmark qw!:hireswallclock :all!;
+use Data::Dumper;
+use POSIX 'round';
+
+my $FILE = 'effi-1x-utf8.txt';
+
+system 'gzip -dkf ./corpus/' . $FILE . '.gz';
+
+my $iter = 1;
+
+# Result of wc -w
+my $effi_wc = `wc -w ./corpus/$FILE`;
+$effi_wc =~ s/^(\d+)\s.*$/$1/;
+
+
+my $models = {
+  'wc' => sub {
+    system 'wc -w ./corpus/'.$FILE.' > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'SoMaJo' => sub {
+    system 'somajo-tokenizer ./corpus/'.$FILE.' --split_sentences > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'SoMaJo_p2' => sub {
+    system 'somajo-tokenizer ./corpus/'.$FILE.' --parallel=2 --split_sentences > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'Datok_matok' => sub {
+    system 'cat ./corpus/'.$FILE.' | ./Datok/datok tokenize -t ./Datok/testdata/tokenizer.matok - > /dev/null'
+  },
+  'Datok_datok' => sub {
+    system 'cat ./corpus/'.$FILE.' | ./Datok/datok tokenize -t ./Datok/testdata/tokenizer.datok - > /dev/null'
+  },
+  'OpenNLP_Simple' => sub {
+    system 'cat ./corpus/'.$FILE.' | ./opennlp/bin/opennlp SimpleTokenizer > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'OpenNLP_Tokenizer_de-ud-gsd' => sub {
+    system 'cat ./corpus/'.$FILE.' | ./opennlp/bin/opennlp TokenizerME ./opennlp/models/opennlp-de-ud-gsd-tokens-1.0-1.9.3.bin > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'OpenNLP_Sentence_de-ud-gsd' => sub {
+    system 'cat ./corpus/'.$FILE.' | ./opennlp/bin/opennlp SentenceDetector ./opennlp/models/opennlp-de-ud-gsd-sentence-1.0-1.9.3.bin > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'TreeTagger' => sub {
+    system 'cat ./corpus/'.$FILE.' | perl ./treetagger/cmd/utf8-tokenize.perl -a ./treetagger/lib/german-abbreviations > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'deep-eos_bi-lstm-de' => sub {
+    system 'python3 ./deep-eos/main.py --input-file ./corpus/'.$FILE.' --model-filename ./deep-eos/bi-lstm-de.model --vocab-filename ./deep-eos/bi-lstm-de.vocab --eos-marker "§" tag > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'deep-eos_cnn-de' => sub {
+    system 'python3 ./deep-eos/main.py --input-file ./corpus/'.$FILE.' --model-filename ./deep-eos/cnn-de.model --vocab-filename ./deep-eos/cnn-de.vocab --eos-marker "§" tag > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'deep-eos_lstm-de' => sub {
+    system 'python3 ./deep-eos/main.py --input-file ./corpus/'.$FILE.' --model-filename ./deep-eos/lstm-de.model --vocab-filename ./deep-eos/lstm-de.vocab --eos-marker "§" tag > /dev/null';
+  },
+  'JTok' => sub {
+    chdir '/euralex/JTok/bin';
+    system 'sh tokenize ../../corpus/'.$FILE.' de > /dev/null';
+    chdir '/euralex';
+  },
+  'KorAP-Tokenizer' => sub {
+    system 'cat ./corpus/'.$FILE.' | java -jar ./KorAP-Tokenizer/KorAP-Tokenizer.jar -l de -s > /dev/null'
+  },
+  Syntok_tokenizer => sub {
+    system 'python3 -m syntok.tokenizer ./corpus/'.$FILE.' > /dev/null';
+  },
+  Syntok_segmenter => sub {
+    system 'python3 -m syntok.segmenter ./corpus/'.$FILE.' > /dev/null';
+  },
+  Waste => sub {
+    system 'cat ./corpus/'.$FILE.' | waste -N --rcfile=./Waste/waste.rc > /dev/null';
+  },
+  nnsplit => sub {
+    system './nnsplit/nnsplit_bench ./corpus/'.$FILE.' > /dev/null'
+  },
+  elephant => sub {
+    system './elephant-wrapper/bin/tokenize.sh -i ./corpus/'.$FILE.' UD_German > /dev/null'
+  },
+  SpaCy => sub {
+    system 'python3 ./spacy/spacy_tok.py ./corpus/'.$FILE.' > /dev/null'
+  }
+};
+
+#delete $models->{'SoMaJo'};
+#delete $models->{'SoMaJo_p2'};
+#delete $models->{'Datok_matok'};
+#delete $models->{'Datok_datok'};
+#delete $models->{'OpenNLP_Simple'};
+#delete $models->{'OpenNLP_Tokenizer_de-ud-gsd'};
+#delete $models->{'OpenNLP_Sentence_de-ud-gsd'};
+#delete $models->{'TreeTagger'};
+#delete $models->{'deep-eos_bi-lstm-de'};
+#delete $models->{'deep-eos_cnn-de'};
+#delete $models->{'deep-eos_lstm-de'};
+#delete $models->{'JTok'};
+#delete $models->{'KorAP-Tokenizer'};
+#delete $models->{'Syntok_tokenizer'};
+#delete $models->{'Syntok_segmenter'};
+#delete $models->{'Waste'};
+#delete $models->{'nnsplit'};
+#delete $models->{'elephant'};
+#delete $models->{'SpaCy'};
+
+
+my $t0 = Benchmark->new;
+my $cmp = timethese($iter => $models);
+
+print "\n----------------------------------\n";
+
+foreach my $tool (sort keys %$cmp) {
+  my $seconds_per_run = $cmp->{$tool}->[0] / $cmp->{$tool}->[5];
+  my $tokens_per_msecond = ($effi_wc / $seconds_per_run) / 1000;
+  print $tool, "\t", $seconds_per_run, "\t", $tokens_per_msecond, "\t", sprintf("%.2f", $tokens_per_msecond), "\n";
+};
+
+print "\n----------------------------------\n";
+
+cmpthese($cmp);
+
+print "Benchmarking took: ", timestr(timediff(Benchmark->new, $t0)), "\n";
+