About this language

Awka is not an interpreter like Gawk, Mawk or Nawk, but instead it converts the program to ANSI-C, then compiles this using gcc or a native C compiler to create a binary executable. This means you must have an ANSI C compiler present on your system for Awka to work.

An interesting feature is the possibility to extend Awka with external C functions (haven't tried this, though).

The tested version was built under cygwin (so it uses cygwin's gcc), with no changes from the source distribution.

Awka
Tested Version	awka 0.7.5, 12 July 2001
Home Page	http://awka.sourceforge.net
Download	http://awka.sourceforge.net/download.html
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(Ranks in Red in the table below are those which fall below the average Rank for this language over all tests. The corresponding programs could possibly benefit from further optimization.)
Test	Source Code	Avg Rank: 23		Avg Rank: 27		Avg Rank: 8		Log
		CPU	Rank	Mem	Rank	LOC	Rank
Ackermann's Function	ackermann.awka	10.34	37	17396	40	10	10	log
Array Access	ary3.awka	16.64	30	2700	30	10	4	log
Count Lines/Words/Chars	wc.awka	0.82	13	18008	36	6	4	log
Fibonacci Numbers	fibo.awka	5.62	29	1832	32	9	17	log
Hash (Associative Array) Access	hash.awka	0.86	9	10408	26	9	3	log
Hashes, Part II	hash2.awka	4.95	13	3696	17	9	2	log
Heapsort	heapsort.awka	4.40	25	7960	33	43	4	log
Hello World	hello.awka	5.97	23	1556	29	1	4	log
Matrix Multiplication	matrix.awka	54.57	34	1884	24	33	7	log
Nested Loops	nestedloop.awka	2.52	28	1584	29	11	4	log
Random Number Generator	random.awka	1.38	24	1616	26	14	9	log
Regular Expression Matching	regexmatch.awka	42.64	13	1688	8	32	11	log
Reverse a File	reversefile.awka	1.77	17	23720	33	5	7	log
Sieve of Erathostenes	sieve.awka	39.99	34	2240	31	17	10	log
Spell Checker	spellcheck.awka	2.16	12	5584	19	11	8	log
Statistical Moments	moments.awka	4.86	27	9576	28	66	28	log
String Concatenation	strcat.awka	36.86	33	3448	33	7	10	log
Sum a Column of Integers	sumcol.awka	2.29	16	1612	23	3	3	log
Word Frequency Count	wordfreq.awka	7.74	19	2108	15	18	4	log
Tests Not Implemented For This Language: Method Calls, Echo Client/Server, Exception Mechanisms, List Operations, Object Instantiation, Producer/Consumer Threads