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Re: mawk gawk nawk awk


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: mawk gawk nawk awk
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 03:41:53 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Jens Petersen <address@hidden>
> Date: 05 Oct 2001 18:20:51 +0900
> 
> I want to ask about the awk search order of autoconf.  It
> seems that mawk is currently preferred, "since it's
> generally faster".  However I understand the opinion is that
> gawk is a better awk than mawk, so how about making that the
> first choice.

Sounds reasonable to me.  Please don't forget to include a patch for
the documentation.

We tend to prefer mawk for the high-performance text processing that
we do around here.  But there hasn't been a new release of mawk for
five years, whereas gawk development is still quite active.



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