Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Performance issues using GAWK 3.1.6 ->from Win 2008 to Win 2016

[Ed Morton]

No, just fix the ones that are extremely slow so that solves your current 
problem and ensures you won’t have a similar problem next time something else 
changes in your environment.

Ed Morton

> On Jun 15, 2021, at 12:01 PM, Koleti, Haritha via Bug reports and all 
> discussion about gawk. <bug-gawk@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Ed,  these inefficient scripts worked ~10 minutes  in 2008.  Do you think to 
> address this(>90 mins on 2016) performance  we have to change all >100 AWK 
> scripts?
> Is there any other way that you can think of would be great.
> 
> Thanks
> Haritha
> 
> From: Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:21 AM
> To: Koleti, Haritha <Haritha.Koleti@pseg.com>; Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>; 
> arnold@skeeve.com
> Cc: wolfgang.laun@gmail.com; bug-gawk@gnu.org; Pereira, Ricardo 
> <Ricardo_D.Pereira@pseg.com>; Pirane, Marco <Marco.Pirane@pseg.com>
> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Performance issues using GAWK 3.1.6 ->from Win 
> 2008 to Win 2016
> 
> Haritha - good. The REAL root cause of your problems is simply that the 
> script was written extremely inefficiently. If you have any other scripts 
> that take in the order of minutes to run given input files of the size you 
> reported then those are also written extremely inefficiently and the fix is 
> to correct those scripts to run efficiently, not try to tune the environment 
> such that those scripts can run faster but still using enormous amounts of 
> time like 10 minutes. So I'd recommend just fixing whichever scripts you have 
> that are taking minutes to run, if any.
> 
>    Ed.
> On 6/15/2021 10:13 AM, Koleti, Haritha wrote:
> Ed,
> 
> This worked like a charm <1 minute.  But we have  100s of scripts .   if 
> would really help if we can find a root cause why this 10 minutes versus 90 
> minutes.
> 
> Thanks
> Haritha
> 
> 
> From: Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net><mailto:mortoneccc@comcast.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 9:05 AM
> To: Koleti, Haritha 
> <Haritha.Koleti@pseg.com><mailto:Haritha.Koleti@pseg.com>; Eli Zaretskii 
> <eliz@gnu.org><mailto:eliz@gnu.org>; 
> arnold@skeeve.com<mailto:arnold@skeeve.com>
> Cc: wolfgang.laun@gmail.com<mailto:wolfgang.laun@gmail.com>; 
> bug-gawk@gnu.org<mailto:bug-gawk@gnu.org>; Pereira, Ricardo 
> <Ricardo_D.Pereira@pseg.com><mailto:Ricardo_D.Pereira@pseg.com>; Pirane, 
> Marco <Marco.Pirane@pseg.com><mailto:Marco.Pirane@pseg.com>
> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Performance issues using GAWK 3.1.6 ->from Win 
> 2008 to Win 2016
> 
> ***CAUTION***
> 
> ***CAUTION***
> 
> ***CAUTION***
> 
> This e-mail is from an EXTERNAL address. The actual sender is 
> (mortoneccc@comcast.net<mailto:mortoneccc@comcast.net>) which may