[xonix]

Btw, the GNU awk is also considerably faster (due to bytecode) than awk bundled with BSD & Mac (usually, "one true awk").

[tyingq]

Depends on the task...sometimes nawk ("one true awk") is faster than gawk. Mawk is almost always faster than either.

An older, but good article on that: https://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-...