awk is a dog under Sys V/3.0 386

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3 total messages Started by Karl Lehenbauer Sat, 14 Jan 1989 01:05

#953

Author: Karl Lehenbauer
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 01:05

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'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0.  Mine will only
process 20-30 lines/second.  Xenix on a 286 blows that away.
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Re: awk is a dog under Sys V/3.0 386

#954

Author: Ken Keirnan
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 19:00

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In article <3272@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0.  Mine will only
>process 20-30 lines/second.  Xenix on a 286 blows that away.

I wonder if the Xenix 286 box has floating hardware?  It is true that the
floating point emulator for System V/386 is a dog.  We have an application
that makes heavy use of awk.  Before we added floating point hardware (a
80387 chip) the application took a little over three hours to run.  After the
FP chip was added the same application ran in just under 17 minutes.  When I
ran pure floating point speed benchmarks, the FP chip improved the processing
time by a factor of 45!

Ken Keirnan
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Re: awk is a dog under Sys V/3.0 386

#955

Author: Wm. Brian McCane
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1989 04:42

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In article <3272@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>'awk' is an incredible dog on the 386 under Sys V/3.0.  Mine will only
>process 20-30 lines/second.  Xenix on a 286 blows that away.

There is an even bigger problem.  If I install (with installit?) something
on my system running Micoport Sys V/3.0 r3.0e.  The next time I use awk
(dfspace for example) for any thing, the system locks up and I have to
power down and then back up.  I don't knopw if anyone else has mentioned
this, but it has existed since I got r2.2 at least.

		brian

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