Re: Strange gawk discrepancy

[Aharon Robbins]

I suggest updating to 3.1.8 (or even better, the version in CVS
gawk-stable from Savannah) and retrying.  3.1.6 is already several
years old. I don't think there were significant memory leaks, but I
also don't remember.

If you still see the problem, please talk to me off-list so that I
can get a sample of the program and data and see what the problem is.

Thanks,

Arnold
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In article <address@hidden> you write:
>Hi folks,
>
>I'm a fairly experienced awk/gawk programmer who does a lot of script
>writing. I mostly use gawk in the Windows environment (boo/hiss/etc.
>:) ) but also on FreeBSD.
>
>Anyway, strange problem. I made an application for a client which
>works pretty quick on my PC, but is *really* slow. His hardware is
>basically better than mine, but where the script will process a set of
>data in under 20 minutes on my machine, on his it takes over 20 hours!
>It also seems to slow down more as it goes.
>
>I can't imagine the PC version being inherently faster.
>
>He's running 3.1.5 and I'm at 3.1.6. Could that make that much difference?
>
>Could there be a memory leak or something only on the *nix version?
>
>Thanks for any advice,
>
>Charles
>


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