Problem with gawk-3.1.5-3

["Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>]

I have a gawk script that I've been using unchanged for at least 9
months that seems to have broken with the transition from gawk-3.1.5-2
to gawk-3.1.5-3.

Gawk seemed to hang, though it might be merely very slow.  I let it run
for hours before killing it.  gawk-3.1.5-2 took 20-30 seconds to run.

This is the script, if that makes a difference.  It is in the middle of
a pipe, receiving input from sort and giving output to another instance
of sort.  Everything should have unix-style line-endings.  The pipe is
running under ash.  The script actually used a tab character instead of
the "\t" escape sequence.  I changed it to "\t" below in the hope that
that might be easier to read in this email.

  gawk '  BEGIN   { FS = OFS = "\t" }
                  {
                  Key = $2 "\t" $3 "\t" $4
                  InfoNew[Key] = $5
                  DateNew[Key] = $1
                  if (InfoOld[Key] == "") {
                          InfoOld[Key] = InfoNew[Key]
                          DateOld[Key] = DateNew[Key] }
                  if (InfoNew[Key] != InfoOld[Key]) {
                          print DateOld[Key], Key, InfoOld[Key]
                          InfoOld[Key] = InfoNew[Key]
                          DateOld[Key] = DateNew[Key] }
                  }
          END     {
                  for (Key in InfoOld) {
                          print DateOld[Key], Key, InfoOld[Key] }
                  }'

Do I need to send anything else?
____

Perhaps related:  gawk-3.1.5-3.tar.bz2 seems a lot bigger than
gawk-3.1.5-2.tar.bz2.  Might that be something that needs attention?

-rwxr-x---+ 1  630852 2005-11-17 11:51:36 gawk-3.1.5-2.tar.bz2
-rwxr-x---+ 1 1011999 2006-03-13 08:05:25 gawk-3.1.5-3.tar.bz2

- Barry

Barry U. Buchbinder, Ph.D.
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