Hi, I am new to awk but quite like it, and I am considering working on some changes to mawk that would have an impact on performance.
Problem: generally awk is already more than fast enough for me. So chances are, this would end up ruining it for everyone else! Unless you help. If you have - a (fast or slow) awk script you use regularly on large sets of data - a scripts you wrote naïvely and then had to revise to make perform acceptably (the before and after would be great) - an awk script you use very often - a shell script in which awk is run in the inner loop - a long stream of data you regularly use awk to digest then I would like to know about it so I can run some tests. In other words, I am looking for performance bugs and performance success reports. As active Debian users, you are the target audience. Dedicated awk users in awk-specific forums might have adapted their behavior to existing implementations, producing skewed results; plus, their scripts are already nicely archived. Please respond privately and I will send a summary in a week or so. If your script is of general interest, I encourage you to contribute to a relevant thread on comp.lang.awk or a site like awk.info and point me there instead. If you think I’m crazy, feel free to let me know that, too. Looking forward to your thoughts, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100421230240.ga25...@progeny.tock