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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: While learning PERL... a suggestion
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.010434.17963@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 9 Feb 91 01:04:34 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.230154.27272@dbsm.oz.au> <1991Jan24.174047.2897@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb2.150543.569@haapi.uci.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <1991Feb2.150543.569@haapi.uci.com> by clay@haapi.uci.com (Clayton Haapala):
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| In article <1991Jan24.174047.2897@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| >As quoted from <1991Jan23.230154.27272@dbsm.oz.au> by maf@thor (Martin Foord):
| >+---------------
| >| about writing Cnews in perl ? Isn't this the sort of application that begs
| >+---------------
| >
| >Henry Spencer would have a fit.  [ ;-) ]
| 
| I have run the translator for some of the awk scripts, like histdups,
| but it didn't seem to run any faster for that particular application.
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a2p works, but even Larry admits (I think the manpage mentions this) that the
generated code is far from optimal.  I suspect that rewriting it manually in
Perl, using Perl's idea of how a program should work instead of awk's, would
show a large speed improvement.

++Brandon
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