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Re: Silly branch compile failure, stage 1


On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:57:18PM -0400, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> 
> This is harmless.  The official autoconf-2.13 lists mawk first, but
> lots of linux distributions switched autoconf to prefer gawk first.
> (As a gnu tool, autoconf preferring gawk is the right thing to do
> IMHO.)

No it isn't.  mawk is from 30% to 100% faster than gawk on all
scripts.  Speed trumps politics.

zw


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