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Btw, the GNU awk is also considerably faster (due to bytecode) than awk bundled with BSD & Mac (usually, "one true awk").
by xonix 4y ago
Btw, the GNU awk is also considerably faster (due to bytecode) than awk bundled with BSD & Mac (usually, "one true awk").
- tyingq 4y agoDepends on the task...sometimes nawk ("one true awk") is faster than gawk. Mawk is almost always faster than either. An older, but good article on that: https://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and-most-elegant-big-data-munging-language/ https://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-...