> TFA only talks about gawk, though, making this comparison meaningless Not exactly! To quote from TFA (I'm the author): > Another “optimization” is to run it

> TFA only talks about gawk, though, making this comparison meaningless Not exactly! To quote from TFA (I'm the author): > Another “optimization” is to run it using mawk, a faster AWK interpreter than gawk. In this case it’s about 1.7 times as fast as gawk -b. I’m using mawk in the benchmarks for the optimized version.