[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1215) bro-cut should be rewritten for speed and to not depend on gawk

[Jon Siwek (JIRA)]

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Jon Siwek commented on BIT-1215:
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Just an FYI: I've added a job to Jenkins to run the bro-aux test suite, so bro-cut is now being regression tested automatically.

> bro-cut should be rewritten for speed and to not depend on gawk
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1215
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1215
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Bro, bro-aux
>            Reporter: Daniel Thayer
>            Assignee: Robin Sommer
>             Fix For: 2.4
>
>
> The current implementation of bro-cut is too slow when processing large log files (takes more than a minute to process a single log file a few hundred MB in size).  Justin Azoff rewrote bro-cut in C and found that it runs an order of magnitude faster.  Another benefit of a C version of bro-cut is that we will no longer depend on gawk for anything (and some of Bro's supported platforms do not include gawk by default).



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