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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.