From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 21 16:43:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mayn.de (airbus.mayn.de [194.145.150.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CDB314F54 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from token@wuff.mayn.de) Received: (qmail 21445 invoked from network); 21 Sep 1999 23:43:50 -0000 Received: from wuff.mayn.de (qmailr@194.145.150.17) by airbus.mayn.de with SMTP; 21 Sep 1999 23:43:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 3611 invoked by uid 603); 21 Sep 1999 23:42:28 -0000 Message-ID: <19990921234228.3610.qmail@wuff.mayn.de> From: token@wuff.mayn.de Subject: Re: nawk vs gawk? (was Re: GNU GLOBAL) In-Reply-To: <37E6FE24.7809BDF3@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> from Pedro Fernando Giffuni at "Sep 20, 1999 10:40:20 pm" To: pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Pedro Fernando Giffuni) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 01:42:28 +0200 (MEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL47 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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