From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 13:52:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D681C37B405 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6988 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2001 20:52:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Oct 2001 20:52:45 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011025135022.A80517@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:02:08 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: RE: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Oct-01 David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> I think this is more of an arch issue. >> >> * Lyndon Nerenberg [011024 20:53] wrote: >> > NOTE: THIS IS A STRAWMAN PROPOSAL! Take it all with a grain of >> > salt! >> >> > For a long while now I've been running with the bwk version of awk >> > in preference to the GNU gawk shipped in the base OS. Nothing has > ... >> Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with >> bawk? Any drawbacks? > > bawk is license friendly for us. I've gotten all the gawk'isms out of > our tree and have run bawk as my system awk for a while. Want me to just > do the vendor import and cut us over? > > I have not done this yet, because I know bawk can be slower than gawk and > didn't want to fight that battle. How much slower? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message