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It is hoped that posixutil's awk's bytecode-based modern design should keep performance high, theoretically higher than ancient C-based awks. Inspired by Ray G
by jgarzik 2y ago
It is hoped that posixutil's awk's bytecode-based modern design should keep performance high, theoretically higher than ancient C-based awks.
Inspired by Ray Gardner's "wak" awk implementation https://github.com/raygard/wak https://github.com/raygard/wak
A volunteer benchmarking our awk on a 1-billion line text file would be welcome.
- dundarious 2y agoYes, that's the most important part to focus on. I have nothing to remark about it, I haven't seen/gathered any numbers on it.