AWK experts - how would I code around this in awk...

[Steve Flynn]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 20:52 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>> For performance, it is C, awk and then perl/python...hmm...not sure
>> where php sits.
>
> Perhaps in a general sense.
>
> For this particular problem, it is likely that the differences are
> pretty minimal; the program will almost certainly be IO bound rather
> than CPU bound. It looks like this is a one-off task, for which, in
> general, savings are to be had in swift development rather than swift
> execution...

Nail on the head Karl.

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Steve
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