Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za:
does anyone want to help test pap's native awk?
Build it and they'll come :-)
URL? Is it portable? How carefully was it ported?
It may be worth twisting Aaron's arm, he may well have a test suite
for GAWK that can be used here?
Lucio.
Paul wrote it from scratch. I have a copy[1] but I'm unsure it's his
latest version -- he no longer has it, so I guess maybe it is.
Paul also asked bwk for his awk test suite, which is still online[2],
thankfully.
Current status: the only failures are bizarre corner cases, but
presumably they're in the testsuite for a reason? Native awk is
slower than APE awk, and Paul mentioned he thinks it's because of the
malloc implementation.
I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE
awk can be thrown in the trash.
[1] http://code.9front.org/awk
[2] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awktest.a
khm
