Re: Proposal from T. Kelly to add gawk news (persistent scripting) to the Savannah forum

[Karl Berry]

    Terrence Kelly (cc-ed) would like to add the following to the
    Savannah forum so that it may show up in people's feeds, but has
    never posted to the forums before.

Forum? Do you mean https://planet.gnu.org? That aggregates the news
feeds from individual savannah projects. Or are you referring to some
other savannah-related forum?

    Is anyone on this mailing list able/willing to do this on Terrance's
    behalf?

Arnold (gawk maintainer) would be the one to do this, or at least to ok
it being done. But I see that he hasn't enabled the news feature for
gawk, so it's not currently part of planet.gnu.org. I surmise
planet.gnu.org would need to be updated to find the new feed. So it
would all take time, but it can be done.

Looks like an awfully nice new feature, by the way :). --best, karl.


Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:18:51 -0500
From: Devin Ulibarri <devinu@fsf.org>
To:  <savannah-hackers@gnu.org>
Cc:  <tpkelly@eecs.umich.edu>
Subject: Proposal from T. Kelly to add gawk news (persistent scripting) to the
 Savannah forum

Hi,

Terrence Kelly (cc-ed) would like to add the following to the Savannah 
forum so that it may show up in people's feeds, but has never posted to 
the forums before.

Is anyone on this mailing list able/willing to do this on Terrance's behalf?

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GNU AWK (gawk) 5.2 now supports transparent persistent memory: gawk can
"remember" script-defined variables and functions in a persistent heap,
which can be re-used by the same script that created it or passed to an
unrelated script.  Persistent memory makes scripting easier and 
sometimes improves performance dramatically.  No special hardware or 
software is required to use persistent memory gawk.

The persistent memory gawk User Manual is available here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/pm-gawk/

A general-purpose, malloc-compatible persistent memory allocator made
persistent memory gawk possible.  This allocator is intended to 
facilitate retrofitting persistence onto a wide range of software.  A 
description of the allocator is here:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3534855

A talk describing the research prototype of persistent memory gawk is
here:

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=tLEQ9pYwsbw

-- Terence Kelly <tpkelly@eecs.umich.edu>

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Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator
Free Software Foundation