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Thank you Victor, I enjoyed your JS articles too!
Agree, that was odd, it now reads:

"the number of the words (n) is approximately 170k"

Thank you for the remark.

Thank you for the insight John, I have included your remark on the article.
I/O latency is usually a major "hidden" cost on programs that deal with large sets of data, not only when writing the solution to disk or loading the data, but memory access in particular. Bottlenecks on the memory hierarchy is something to pay a close attention to.