interesting docs, thanks! i see you're already running the one-true-awk test suite, which was the only suggestion i would have had, and you're running it against "all the awks", which is even better than what i had in mind :-)
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 10:37 PM Ray Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 1:38 PM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 5/8/24 16:27, Ray Gardner wrote: > >> BTW I was a bit surprised that mentioning my awk for toybox got no > >> reaction. > > > > Oh I'm interested, but somebody (probably you) mentioned they were looking > > into > > it before, and I'll wait to see some code first. :) > > > > (The problem with asking to see code early is pending/git.c isn't useful and > > that's as far as the original developer had time/energy for, and I haven't > > personally opened that can of worms yet. The problem with waiting until it's > > done is pending/bc.c was several times larger than I expected and I'm > > uncertain > > if I even want to personally open that can of worms.) > > > > That said, if you're actively working on it and wanted to do a brief design > > infodump here, consider it solicited. :) > > I've worked on it a lot. See > > https://www.raygard.net/awkdoc/ > > https://github.com/raygard/wak/blob/main/toybox/awk.c > > https://github.com/raygard/wak/blob/main/toybox_awk_test/awk.test > > Yes, it's larger than busybox awk. I believe it's also got fewer bugs > and performs better. > > It works. Drop it in toys/pending or (if you're feeling rad) in > toys/posix. Let me know if anything does not work. > > See the comments in https://github.com/raygard/wak/issues/7 -- it's in > use by at least a couple people in its "standalone" version outside of > toybox. Also see https://github.com/raygard/wak/issues/2 -- this guy > did the Advent of Code in awk, and my awk works on it. > > For more fun, get > https://github.com/patsie75/awk-mandelbrot/raw/master/mandelbrot.awk > > and run: toybox awk -v profile=2 -f mandelbrot.awk > > It may take a while but it will finish at frame 400. Try other profile > values (1 through 8). busybox awk doesn't work at all. All other awks > (gawk, Kernighan's awk, mawk, goawk) give similar output but no two > awks make identical output. > > Regarding bc.c being several times larger than expected: bc is a > programming language with functions and control structures and > arbitrary precision math and interactive mode. Not sure it can be > written much smaller. But my awk is smaller than toybox bc.c in > (non-comment nonblank) LOC. > > Ray > > > P.S. Also, my old Austin house finally went on the market last weekend and > > we > > P.S. I hope the house thing is going OK for you. > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
