Quoting arn...@skeeve.com:
BWK has said that malloc affects the performance of his awk; I think it's in his README file.
Yes, it was explained to me that plan 9 malloc does useful things instead of just shoving things into the first available hole like APE malloc. I'm reasonably certain Moore's Law has fixed this issue for all practical applications, however...
I can't get to this with a browser. How does one get the source? Is it intended to run on *nix also? It'd be nice to have since it's always fun to compare multiple implementations when trying to figure out a corner case. Besides BWK's awk, there is mawk, BusyBox awk, and the MKS awk as found in the various OpenSolaris derivatives.
I mangled some webshit earlier today on that server (bad timing I guess). Correct link to the hg repo is https://code.9front.org/hg/awk And I think I have a tarball at http://intma.in/downloads/awk.tgz but that webserver Content-type is broken so you should hget it instead of using a browser to download. khm
