Re: Submitted for your review: random sampling filters in gawk

"Janis Papanagnou" <Janis_Papanagnou@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> The counted loop seems to be always preferable in case of contiguous
> filled arrays.

It certainly is in TAWK V4. Loops of any size execute up to three times
faster while traversing such arrays. Though I had generally assumed that
this was due to the "in" operator triggering an array sort before
beginning
the iteration.

- Anton Treuenfels