awk to C (was awk)

[Lawrence V. Cipriani]

In article <92 at dlss2.UUCP>, james at dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings) writes:
> 
> 	There is an awk to C translator?....what's it called?

Yes.  There is one in the AT&T Toolchest called awkcc.  See my previous
post for Toolchest phone number and login.

Jon Bentley did some research on awkcc produced C programs and found the
C programs it generated were generally faster by an order of magnitude
than the awk input programs; however, there were a few instances where
the awk programs were faster.  Usually if there was a lot of i/o the C
program was faster.
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Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc at cbvox.att.com
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