Does AWK uses a lot of processing power? If so, is there a better scripting language to do it? Or should I do it in C itself (where rest of my code is).
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Does AWK uses a lot of processing power? If so, is there a better scripting language to do it? Or should I do it in C itself (where rest of my code is).
Depends on what you’re telling it to do. Most of the work is passed to the regexp engine, which should be similar, no matter what language you use.
Now if you’re using an awk script from inside a C program, and you have the resources to just implement the functionality in C too, you’re best off doing that. You’ll avoid the process creation/termination + communication overhead (which may or may not be a big part of the performance hit you’ll get).
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