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Unfortunately, for large files perl is significantly faster than awk. I was working on some very large files doing some splitting, and perl was over an order of
by shaklee3 7y ago
Unfortunately, for large files perl is significantly faster than awk. I was working on some very large files doing some splitting, and perl was over an order of magnitude faster.
- gbacon 7y agoA tool that is stable, well supported, has outstanding documentation, thoroughly tested, won’t capriciously break your code, and outperforms the rest of the pack is not the unfortunate case.
- shaklee3 7y agoTo be more clear, the unfortunately part was due to the title of this article. I think awk is great, but if you know perl well enough it can easily replace it and be much more versatile