PSE-L(_at_)mail(_dot_)professional(_dot_)org (Professional Software
Engineering) writes:
At 00:31 2001-12-16 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
Just saw your post so haven't actually run your suggestion yet, but
are you suggesting some other way of getting the job done that awk is
doing?
I am suggesting that you try running a _test_ with the AWK removed to
see what sort of performance hit you're taking from running AWK. If
it is significant (as I suspect it may be), you could then decide to
use a different tool for the job. Until you're aprised of the
As it turns out, I didn't really time without the awk but see I do not
need any of that in this instance anyway. The `From ' line isn't
necessary and a process that was rewriting Xref isn't involved in this
setup now. So something of moot point. Thanks for the push. It
caused me to review the whole thing and discover I didn't need the awk
operation at all.
It has sped things up considerably but I didn't actually measure it.
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