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

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-and-most-elegant-big-data-munging-language/ https://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-...