Re:Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
by yiyus on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:40PM
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That depends on what you are doing. Which test did you run?
Around 10 years ago I rewrote markdown.pl in awk and it was almost 20 times faster. The speedup came from both a much faster startup time and a much faster (albeit simpler) regexp implementation.
Around 10 years ago I rewrote markdown.pl in awk and it was almost 20 times faster. The speedup came from both a much faster startup time and a much faster (albeit simpler) regexp implementation.