On 3/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > however gnu has devolved. they seem to value compiling on anything, > > and efficiency, but they don't seem to value simplicity. > > It's a skewed form of concern about efficiency though. In the case of > gcc, they worry about run-time of the generated program, but not about > the time it takes to compile it. gcc seems to get slower with each > release. I don't know if gcc 4 is the slowest C compiler on the > planet (I suspect that Henry Spencer's never-finished aacc, written in > awk, might take that title), but it's the slowest one I've used. > > As an aside, I was finding that later versions of GNU Awk were outrunning GNU Sed (Well I assume it was GNU sed.) The authors of the Sed and Awk O'Reilly book saw the same behavior, which was a reversal of what they saw in the first edition of the book :-).
I wonder who spent so much time speeding up awk and ignoring sed? :)
