The tac.c i pushed few time ago is magnitudes faster than awk.
That was the reasom why nibble and me wrote it.
On 26/05/2011, at 20:45, markus schnalke <mei...@marmaro.de> wrote:
> [2011-05-26 07:39] Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com>
>>
>> Afaik tac sucks more, as it is quite an arbitrary command, not part of
>> Plan 9 and can be imitated with a awk one liner like
>>
>> awk '{a[i++]=$0} END {for (j=i-1; j>=0;) print a[j--] }'
>
> Okay, but who want's to type this line by hand?
>
> IMO tac *should be included* in some Unix toolchain, but as a
> shell/awk script, containing this line. This would be software
> leverage.
>
> Unfortunately it seems as if this concept is just too often handed
> over to the administrators. If programs are distributed, people focus
> on performance and write them in C instead ...
>
>
>
>> Don't get me wrong, I think this sbase thing is a great excercise but
>> I really do believe there is more interesting stuff that we should
>> rather focus on.
>
> I fully agree.
>
>
> meillo
>
