Re: Strange gawk discrepancy

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:51:20 -0400
> From: Charles Kozierok <address@hidden>
> 
> 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?

Unlikely, on both accounts.

One possible cause of slowdown could be the locale related issues
(they make regular expressions slower).  You could try to run the same
script with LC_ALL=C.

If that doesn't help, perhaps use pgawk to profile the script, then
you will have a clue what slows it down.