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Thanks, that's extremely helpful. Both fixed the memory bug and order wasn't important. Interesting, mac's native awk ran 4x faster than my newly compiled gawk on the same code/same data.

I've written an awk script that shouldn't, in theory, be taking up that much memory but in practice it is crashing due to running out of virtually memory on my server (like 800GB). It does store about 3200 strings in an associative array but that part doesn't seem to take much memory. It's the...