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

[arnold]

Hi All.

I have no objection to someone posting this on Planet GNU.

I don't really feel like enabling or messing with any kind of "news"
feature for gawk on Savannah.  I spend too much time on gawk as
it is now.

Thanks,

Arnold

Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> wrote:

>     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?
>
> -----BEGIN-----
>
> 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>
>
> -----END-----
>
> -- 
> Devin Ulibarri // Outreach & Communications Coordinator
> Free Software Foundation