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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 01:42:28 +0200 (MEST)
From:      token@wuff.mayn.de
To:        pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Pedro Fernando Giffuni)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nawk vs gawk? (was Re: GNU GLOBAL)
Message-ID:  <19990921234228.3610.qmail@wuff.mayn.de>
In-Reply-To: <37E6FE24.7809BDF3@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> from Pedro Fernando Giffuni at "Sep 20, 1999 10:40:20 pm"

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Pedro Fernando Giffuni wrote:

>Yes, I know that gawk is faster, but isn't nawk the one true (new) awk?

From my experience, the awk downloadable from Kernighan's web page
(should be "nawk", shouldn't it?) is a little bit faster on average
than gawk.  Probably not much that it would really matter anyways.
I've heard that another implementation, Mawk is still faster but
I haven't tried it yet.

mkb


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