AWKGo, an AWK-to-Go compiler

November 2021 I’m such a nerd that I nerd-sniped myself. As the author of GoAWK, an AWK interpreter written in Go, I was wondering one day how hard it would be to translate AWK programs into Go code. Couldn’t be that hard, right? I decided to try it. It wasn’t particularly hard – at least, not for the subset of AWK that my compiler supports – and I was able to reuse GoAWK’s parser and many of its

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Go でコンパイル形式の awk を作ったら速度がオリジナルの9倍になった話。 #golang