Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:02:08 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: RE: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <XFMail.011025060208.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011025135022.A80517@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 25-Oct-01 David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> I think this is more of an arch issue. >> >> * Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> [011024 20:53] wrote: >> > NOTE: THIS IS A STRAWMAN PROPOSAL! Take it all with a grain of >> > salt! >> >> > For a long while now I've been running with the bwk version of awk >> > in preference to the GNU gawk shipped in the base OS. Nothing has > ... >> Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with >> bawk? Any drawbacks? > > bawk is license friendly for us. I've gotten all the gawk'isms out of > our tree and have run bawk as my system awk for a while. Want me to just > do the vendor import and cut us over? > > I have not done this yet, because I know bawk can be slower than gawk and > didn't want to fight that battle. How much slower? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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