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From: andrew@uel.uel.co.uk (Andrew Josey)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Man pages for awkcc.
Summary: awkcc explained
Message-ID: <958@uel.uel.co.uk>
Date: 27 Jan 89 10:46:02 GMT
References: <2586@rtech.rtech.com> <8246@dasys1.UUCP>
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In article <8246@dasys1.UUCP>, treed@dasys1.UUCP (Timothy Reed) writes:
> 
> Huh, what?  I just woke up - what's 'awkcc?'  Is it an awk 
> code compiler?  ...

Awkcc is a preprocessor that translates awk code into C, 
which is subsequently compiled using cc.  This tool
can multiply the speed of many awk scripts, and increases of
a factor between 2 and 6 are common.
Since awkcc uses C as its target language, the package is
easily ported to any UNIX system environment, and has been used on a range
of machines and operating systems including System V, BSD4.3, and
Sun 3.2.

It is available from the UNIX System Toolchest.
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