On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:06:56PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > Given that mawk's trying to be fast, doing what gawk is doing would > > > detract from that goal. The option's there for people who want it.
By the way, the traces also show that mawk is making fewer library calls
than gawk. Current mawk uses more calls than the 1.3.3 version,
mostly in the command-line parsing so that mawk knows the difference between
-W interactive
-W ignore
(though you'll see a couple more sprinkled in the traces, due to more
important bug-fixes). One might argue for making it read command-line
options from an environment variable as I did for dialog - that in turn
would cost a little more speed - but since there's no progress in fixing
Debian's mawk package, that's an academic point.
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