On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:23:59PM +0200, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: >Has any developer seen this thread? Could you please explain me what >the advantages of mawk versus gawk are, and why it is the default awk?
The question's been asked before[1] without getting an answer. These are my impressions and opinions. They aren't encumbered by anything resembling facts or actual knowledge ;-) - gawk has more features (i.e. extensions over plain awk), but mawk is good enough. - mawk is faster than gawk. /M 1. http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2005-October/006839.html -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Documentation is like sex: When it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
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