Hoi,
We now use the one true awk in DragonFly BSD as our default.
Some people reported poor performance in some cases and, while
looking over the source, i noticed a cheap speed improvement.
Maybe you like it.
Thx,
Andy
Index: tran.c
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RCS file: /home/dcvs/src/contrib/awk20040207/tran.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 tran.c
--- tran.c 17 Apr 2004 19:41:31 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ tran.c 1 Nov 2004 19:05:26 -0000
@@ -396,11 +396,13 @@ char *getpssval(Cell *vp) /* get str
char *tostring(const char *s) /* make a copy of string s */
{
char *p;
+ size_t size;
- p = (char *) malloc(strlen(s)+1);
+ size = strlen(s) + 1;
+ p = (char *) malloc(size);
if (p == NULL)
FATAL("out of space in tostring on %s", s);
- strcpy(p, s);
+ bcopy(s, p, size);
return(p);
}