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Awk can also be faster than (naively written) C++. http://anyall.org/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and-most-elegant-big-data-munging-language/ http://a
by brendano 16y ago
Awk can also be faster than (naively written) C++. http://anyall.org/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and-most-elegant-big-data-munging-language/ http://anyall.org/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and...
- silentbicycle 16y agoThat's not news, though. Better algorithms trump constant factors, and what is "naively written C++" if not a murder of bad algorithm choices? I'd bet that people get shit done 10x+ times faster in awk/lua/python/ruby/lisp/whatever until having to work with nasty C++-specific libraries dominates, though. (C is friendlier that way.)