Hi All. I have no objection to someone posting this on Planet GNU.
I don't really feel like enabling or messing with any kind of "news" feature for gawk on Savannah. I spend too much time on gawk as it is now. Thanks, Arnold Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > Terrence Kelly (cc-ed) would like to add the following to the > Savannah forum so that it may show up in people's feeds, but has > never posted to the forums before. > > Forum? Do you mean https://planet.gnu.org? That aggregates the news > feeds from individual savannah projects. Or are you referring to some > other savannah-related forum? > > Is anyone on this mailing list able/willing to do this on Terrance's > behalf? > > Arnold (gawk maintainer) would be the one to do this, or at least to ok > it being done. But I see that he hasn't enabled the news feature for > gawk, so it's not currently part of planet.gnu.org. I surmise > planet.gnu.org would need to be updated to find the new feed. So it > would all take time, but it can be done. > > Looks like an awfully nice new feature, by the way :). --best, karl. > > > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:18:51 -0500 > From: Devin Ulibarri <dev...@fsf.org> > To: <savannah-hackers@gnu.org> > Cc: <tpke...@eecs.umich.edu> > Subject: Proposal from T. Kelly to add gawk news (persistent scripting) to the > Savannah forum > > Hi, > > Terrence Kelly (cc-ed) would like to add the following to the Savannah > forum so that it may show up in people's feeds, but has never posted to > the forums before. > > Is anyone on this mailing list able/willing to do this on Terrance's behalf? > > -----BEGIN----- > > GNU AWK (gawk) 5.2 now supports transparent persistent memory: gawk can > "remember" script-defined variables and functions in a persistent heap, > which can be re-used by the same script that created it or passed to an > unrelated script. Persistent memory makes scripting easier and > sometimes improves performance dramatically. No special hardware or > software is required to use persistent memory gawk. > > The persistent memory gawk User Manual is available here: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/pm-gawk/ > > A general-purpose, malloc-compatible persistent memory allocator made > persistent memory gawk possible. This allocator is intended to > facilitate retrofitting persistence onto a wide range of software. A > description of the allocator is here: > > https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3534855 > > A talk describing the research prototype of persistent memory gawk is > here: > > https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=tLEQ9pYwsbw > > -- Terence Kelly <tpke...@eecs.umich.edu> > > -----END----- > > -- > Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator > Free Software Foundation