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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: Speeding up awk processing
Keywords: awk
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Date: 3 Apr 91 16:24:49 GMT
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Jonathan I. Kamens writes:

>  I believe that AT&T sells an awk to C translator in one of their toolchests,
>but it isn't free.

[disclaimer: I have no association with AT&T or ToolChest. I am just
a happy customer, glad to have some of this stuff available, even for
a fee.]

The translator is called "awkcc". The toolchest price for source is 175.00,
naturally, not freely redistributable.

Here is the brief description of Awkcc:
   	
   Tool name: awkcc
   
   awkcc - awk to C translator
   
   awkcc is a preprocessor that translates awk code into C code. The  C
   code  is  then  compiled  using cc. awkcc can speed awk scripts by a
   factor of 2 to 6.  awkcc is transparent;  compiled  scripts  produce
   the same results as interpreted scripts.
   
   awkcc is easily ported and it has been used on a variety of machines
   and operating systems including System V, BSD4.3, and Sun 3.2.
   
   awkcc is meant to be used in conjunction with  awk,  an  interpreted
   pattern scanning and processing language.  The latest version of awk
   can be found in the Toolchest listed under "awk".
   
   
enjoy.	oz
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