2015-08-17 Following a long email discussion with Hauke, which started as ``awk is slow'' and evolved into general performance and coding style considerations, we finished it today, sitting at a table, face to face. Originally, I wanted to summarize the findings of our discussion, but it grew too fast and I was too busy. Now, it only resides in our memories and mailboxes. ... Well, maybe not everything needs to be opened up to the public. If someone else will approach me with the same topic again, I wonder if I should just hand him over the discussion and require him to give a summary back in return ... http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke