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From: walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: AWK-2-C Translator Wanted
Message-ID: <720028@hpsadle.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 90 23:42:25 GMT
References: <234@malathion>
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
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I assume the need for compilable c is for run-time speed; you may be able to
get the effect you need by using perl, which does a run-time compile (sort
of).  I've found a substantial improvement in speed when converting from awk
to perl.  If disk space isn't a big concern, it can do a image dump to reduce
start-up time.  perl comes with a2p, a converter for awk, and s2p, for sed,
both of which have produced completely correct, if somewhat hard to read,
code for me.