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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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