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Re: horribly slow converting 3.4mb of news to mail

2001-12-16 22:21:56
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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