Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638425 --- Comment #7 from Mark McKinstry <mmckinst@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-10-05 20:04:39 EDT --- (In reply to comment #5) > If I may ask, what's the motivation for adding two alternate versions of awk to > Fedora? The reason for mawk is it can be faster than gawk for some things [1] [2]. As for nawk, I like doing things with awk and comparing the different awks so I figured I'd include nawk too. nawk is also the version of awk included with the BSDs and OS X. [1] http://anyall.org/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and-most-elegant-big-data-munging-language/ [2] http://awka.sourceforge.net/compare.html -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review