[Bug 638425] Review Request: nawk - "The one true awk" descended from UNIX V7

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--- Comment #7 from Mark McKinstry  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-bi...
[2] http://awka.sourceforge.net/compare.html