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    From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Mon Jul 12 21:22:52 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:25:30 +0200
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> wrote:

    [On AWK dark corners.]
    The GNU
    Awk manual has the topic incoherently spread across three chapters.
    It would certainly be helpful to have a more coherent picture and a
    guidance or suggestion (with all the caveats, e.g. about what happens
    with a RS="^$" statement in other awks). There have also performance
    issues been addressed by Arnold in the past, I think that the @load
    option is the fastest because it bypasses the regexp processing,
    which would aid the user to make an informed choice what to use when.

    Until we have such a "directive" I fear we'll repeat our discussions
    every couple years again, and they seem to not be quickly terminated discussions on every re-iteration. ;-)

    The only person who can provide authoritative answers is Arnold Robbins. I think he reads comp.lang.awk but I'm not sure if he reads comp.unix.shell
    so you should have crossposted to comp.lang.awk (which I've done). As I'm typing this , I can see that several more posts have been made in the thread discussing esoteric issues regarding AWK .It would have served everyone best
    if these also appeared on comp.lang.awk .

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Tue Jul 13 07:57:02 2021
    On 12.07.2021 23:22, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:25:30 +0200
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> wrote:

    [On AWK dark corners.]
    The GNU
    Awk manual has the topic incoherently spread across three chapters.
    It would certainly be helpful to have a more coherent picture and a
    guidance or suggestion (with all the caveats, e.g. about what happens
    with a RS="^$" statement in other awks). There have also performance
    issues been addressed by Arnold in the past, I think that the @load
    option is the fastest because it bypasses the regexp processing,
    which would aid the user to make an informed choice what to use when.

    Until we have such a "directive" I fear we'll repeat our discussions
    every couple years again, and they seem to not be quickly terminated
    discussions on every re-iteration. ;-)

    The only person who can provide authoritative answers is Arnold Robbins. I think he reads comp.lang.awk but I'm not sure if he reads comp.unix.shell so you should have crossposted to comp.lang.awk (which I've done). As I'm typing this , I can see that several more posts have been made in the thread discussing esoteric issues regarding AWK .It would have served everyone best if these also appeared on comp.lang.awk .

    You are right, the focus got shifted. And also the subject needs an
    adjustment (in CUS and CLA; which I've done here for comp.lang.awk).

    Janis

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