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From: david@cs.dal.ca (David Trueman)
Subject: Re: Awk Benchmarks
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.132050.20738@cs.dal.ca>
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
References: <33569@usc.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 13:20:50 GMT

As the principle author of gawk, I felt I had to defend "my baby".


First, there is a new version that would have been released a week ago,
but I thought it better not to do so, before I went away for a week to Usenix.

The new version is at least twice as fast as 2.11.1 and is more robust and
more portable and almost completely compliant with the current POSIX draft.

On the benchmark suite that came with the mawk distribution, this version
of gawk is only about 25% slower than mawk.  On some typical applications,
gawk is significantly faster than mawk (on others it is significantly slower).

I will give a more complet report in a week or two.

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