lu...@proxima.alt.za: > It may be worth twisting Aaron's arm, he may well have a test suite > for GAWK that can be used here?
The gawk test suite is part of the dist. See test/Makefile.am for the list of tests that are general and those that are gawk specific. I've tried to keep the separation clean. Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote: > Current status: the only failures are bizarre corner cases, but > presumably they're in the testsuite for a reason? Yes - people will do anything they can. Experience has taught me that even bizarre corner cases need to be handled. > Native awk is slower than APE awk, and Paul mentioned he thinks it's > because of the malloc implementation. BWK has said that malloc affects the performance of his awk; I think it's in his README file. > [1] http://code.9front.org/awk I can't get to this with a browser. How does one get the source? Is it intended to run on *nix also? It'd be nice to have since it's always fun to compare multiple implementations when trying to figure out a corner case. Besides BWK's awk, there is mawk, BusyBox awk, and the MKS awk as found in the various OpenSolaris derivatives. Thanks, Arnold
