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lucio@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 <khm@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