awka

You can do mandelbrot even with awk and sh. https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hessch/5383798/raw/e8d099... For speed, you might be able to compile it with awka and any C compiler with the math library: https://github.com/noyesno/awka awka -f mandelbrot.awk > mandelbrot.c cc -O2 -lawka -lm -o mandelbrot mandelbrot.c

One of my recent project requires a fast awk implementation, and I tried frawk and got surprised by how robust it is. Although eventually we chose https://github.com/noyesno/awka for better native awk script compatibility, it's still wonderful to see a project incorporating recent advances of programming language implementation into the ancient awk.

Interested parties should also check out awka (https://github.com/noyesno/awka) and ELVM (which can compile C into awk or sed, among various other things) (https://github.com/shinh/elvm)

ok, I found https://github.com/noyesno/awka so it is possible, though it uses it's own lib to link against - I don't know how much of that is based on AWK C vs original code.

Having never heard of Gambit, it looks like Gambit:Scheme::Awka:AWK https://github.com/noyesno/awka

With AWKA, in my tests I was able to get an instant 100% speed boost without modifying any of my AWK code. So using AWKA would likely beat the tools presented here, without needing to invest the time to learn a new tool, which for me at least is of paramount importance. https://github.com/noyesno/awka

I constantly write full-blown applications and engines in AWK: small, with minimal memory requirements and runs like a bandit. Truly one of the most ingenious and practical programming languages ever made, and with AWKA it can be compiled into a machine code binary executable for anywhere from 20 to 100% increase in speed. The AWK programming language book by the authors of the language, featured here many times: https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_P... AWKA: https://github.com/noyesno/awka