Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an Awk script that ran twice as fast as the script you used, > which suggests that scripting is still pretty competitive with C here, > if you choose a faster implementation. I tested it using Mawk, on a > text file with 15,699,634 bytes and 514,573 lines.
Thanks. Interesting, albeit not really surprising (taking into the account the features of Perl vs. Awk). Did you run it against linecut? If not, would you bother to do so? Still, do you think it's worth pursuing linecut implemented in C (given the best possible implementation) ? I do, but if you (i.e., this list) can't be convinced, I won't pursue this any further. Steven Schubiger _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
