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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ports tree for Plan 9
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Quoting lucio@proxima.alt.za:

>> does anyone want to help test pap's native awk?
>
> Build it and they'll come :-)
>
> URL?  Is it portable?  How carefully was it ported?
>
> It may be worth twisting Aaron's arm, he may well have a test suite
> for GAWK that can be used here?
>
> Lucio.

Paul wrote it from scratch.  I have a copy[1] but I'm unsure it's his
latest version -- he no longer has it, so I guess maybe it is.

Paul also asked bwk for his awk test suite, which is still online[2],
thankfully.

Current status:  the only failures are bizarre corner cases, but
presumably they're in the testsuite for a reason?  Native awk is
slower than APE awk, and Paul mentioned he thinks it's because of the
malloc implementation.

I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE
awk can be thrown in the trash.

[1] http://code.9front.org/awk
[2] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awktest.a

khm