Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!lvc
From: lvc@cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: awk to C (was awk)
Summary: awkcc
Keywords: (n)awk to C
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.131446.28302@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 13:14:46 GMT
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Organization: Ideology Busters Inc.
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In article <92@dlss2.UUCP>, james@dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings) writes:
> 
> 	There is an awk to C translator?....what's it called?

Yes.  There is one in the AT&T Toolchest called awkcc.  See my previous
post for Toolchest phone number and login.

Jon Bentley did some research on awkcc produced C programs and found the
C programs it generated were generally faster by an order of magnitude
than the awk input programs; however, there were a few instances where
the awk programs were faster.  Usually if there was a lot of i/o the C
program was faster.
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Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc@cbvox.att.com
           "Save a logger, eat an owl"