Really? In a recent test of a whole bunch of languages, scripting, compiled and JVM (but not Kona or kdb), our awk test was beaten only by C. awk was so far ahead, its run time beat other's compile + run time.
Yes, really. Nothing I know of beats the speed of k for this column-oriented type of task. Kernighan himself tested it against awk many years ago and if I recall it was generally faster even in that set of tests.
Where can I see your experimental design? I'd like to try to replicate your results.
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Really? In a recent test of a whole bunch of languages, scripting, compiled and JVM (but not Kona or kdb), our awk test was beaten only by C. awk was so far ahead, its run time beat other's compile + run time.
Yes, really. Nothing I know of beats the speed of k for this column-oriented type of task. Kernighan himself tested it against awk many years ago and if I recall it was generally faster even in that set of tests.
Where can I see your experimental design? I'd like to try to replicate your results.