I have an awk script which processes about 32k lines of text and produces 16K lines of text as out put

Windows with uwin = 5'30"
Slitaz 3.0 = 1'50" (after boot) to 3'20" (after an hour or two of work)
ubuntu/colinux on windows: 12" (12 seconds)
Crunchbang (native) 7.6 s

You read correctly. slitaz awk is 20 times SLOWER than native crunchbang or colinux ubuntu.
(this is a single core pentium)

By the way i found another awk problem that I believe is a bug (crunchbang shows the same strange behavior)

string="abc(def" #--- works as expected
string[1]= "abc(def" #--- does not work and generates and error at runtime
string[1]= "abc\(def" #--- does work and behalves like there would be no antislash like string="abc(def"

Sometime, life is making me very miserable....

This being said, i am back to windows and ubuntu colinux until this job is completed or awk is fixed.
I love slitaz, and I hate Gnome, but I hate even more to wait.... :(