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mawk gawk nawk awk
From: |
Jens Petersen |
Subject: |
mawk gawk nawk awk |
Date: |
05 Oct 2001 18:20:51 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence) |
Hi,
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. In this day and age of very fast machines, I
think the quality of the awk implementation should be the
deciding factor, not its speed, assuming they don't vary by
orders of magnitude.
If people aren't against this change, I will gladly send in
a patch to this effect to autoconf-patches.
Cheers, Jens
- mawk gawk nawk awk,
Jens Petersen <=