On: Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language. (2021)

[anthk]

A pity it's just for gawk; if it worked under POSIX awk you could use awka to give it a good boost.

[gpvos → anthk]

Interesting, I'd never heard of awka. Note that frawk does some JITting using LLVM, so it can also be very fast; but it also doesn't support everything that gawk does.