Re: [bug-gawk] speed regression when doing math with gawk 5

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 02:51:08PM -0400, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> Yikes. This is bad. But I don't think this fix quite works. With the patch
> applied, I still have this problem in master:
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> bash-4.2$ yes a b c | sed 5q | ./gawk '{$0 = ++i; print $1}'                
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> As compared to an older version:
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> bash-4.2$ yes a b c | sed 5q | /bin/gawk '{$0 = ++i; print $1}'
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
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> So this doesn't quite get the job done...

The attached patch passes my new test, as well as "make check" and 
"make valgrind-noleak". Can you please check whether it fixes your
performance problem? It seems to on my system.

Regards,
Andy

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