Re: [bug-gawk] Is the speed of array index checking same as string comparison?

[arnold]

Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Here is the correct one. It seems that there is only a constant factor
> (~40%) slow-down no matter how large the hash size is. Is it?

That is certainly what your numbers show.

As I mentioned, gawk goes to a lot of trouble to keep array access with
constant time no matter how many elements in the array.

What are you trying to accomplish?  I suspect that the effort you're
putting into measuring things in isolation isn't worthwhile as I/O
usually swamps computation in awk programs.

Arnold