Re: mawk to gawk or ?

Gordon Grieder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a few awk utilities which processes ~400MB logs from our
> various Cisco PIXs and ~100 MB from squid proxies daily through cron
> early every morning. Currently I've been running it with mawk and
> everything is peachy.
> 
> It seems that mawk has been abandoned, though. Is this the case? I do
> sometimes run my scripts from the command line and that's where I see
> the hit when I compare the two.
> 
> So, to make a long query short: is mawk headed to the ghetto and would
> it be wise to work with gawk or some other version of awk?[0]
> 
>  gg
> 
> [0] Not trying to start a language war! Just wanting opinions!
I had to do some simple things recently (sprintf,substr) on 5 GB of data.
mawk minutes, gawk days