15 Mar
2017
15 Mar
'17
1:55 p.m.
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
But the improvement happened *because of the economics
of the system*.
I guess that's true. My experience is that GNU Awk (gawk) was used on
the side a lot, alongside Unix awk on Unix systems. When gawk became
*the* awk on Linux systems, that's when it really started getting pounded
on, and that's when many of the significant bugs and/or performance
issues got shaken out.
I suspect that this is true of the other major GNU tools, such as
Bash, coreutils, etc.
Arnold