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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 7e103443..a809bd0d 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -21150,15 +21150,7 @@ function readfile(file, tmp, contents) This function reads from @code{file} one record at a time, building up the full contents of the file in the local variable @code{contents}. -It works, but is not necessarily -@c 8/2014. Thanks to BWK for pointing this out: -efficient. -@ignore -@footnote{Execution time grows quadratically in the size of -the input; for each record, @command{awk} has to allocate a bigger -internal buffer for @code{contents}, copy the old contents into it, -and then append the contents of the new record.} -@end ignore +It works, but is not necessarily efficient. The following function, based on a suggestion by Denis Shirokov, reads the entire contents of the named file in one shot: |