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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: 28		Avg Rank: 27		Avg Rank: 8		Log
		CPU	Rank	Mem	Rank	LOC	Rank
Ackermann's Function	ackermann.gawk	T	(T) *	T	(T) *	10	10	log
Array Access	ary3.gawk	60.62	39	3212	33	10	4	log
Count Lines/Words/Chars	wc.gawk	0.55	7	2052	23	6	4	log
Fibonacci Numbers	fibo.gawk	26.81	43	2052	35	9	17	log
Hash (Associative Array) Access	hash.gawk	1.38	17	8456	19	9	3	log
Hashes, Part II	hash2.gawk	6.72	20	3732	18	9	2	log
Heapsort	heapsort.gawk	26.95	40	8484	35	43	4	log
Hello World	hello.gawk	7.38	30	2016	36	1	4	log
Matrix Multiplication	matrix.gawk	90.64	37	2280	25	33	7	log
Nested Loops	nestedloop.gawk	27.59	43	2044	35	11	4	log
Random Number Generator	random.gawk	5.49	39	2072	33	14	9	log
Regular Expression Matching	regexmatch.gawk	24.66	11	2200	9	32	11	log
Reverse a File	reversefile.gawk	5.18	27	23060	32	5	7	log
Sieve of Erathostenes	sieve.gawk	225.09	46	2472	35	17	10	log
Spell Checker	spellcheck.gawk	1.63	8	3960	12	11	8	log
Statistical Moments	moments.gawk	25.30	32	9468	27	66	28	log
String Concatenation	strcat.gawk	38.82	35	2680	27	7	10	log
Sum a Column of Integers	sumcol.gawk	2.44	17	2032	27	3	3	log
Word Frequency Count	wordfreq.gawk	6.31	17	2488	17	18	4	log
*Test Implemented but not measured (timeout or error).
Tests Not Implemented For This Language: Method Calls, Echo Client/Server, Exception Mechanisms, List Operations, Object Instantiation, Producer/Consumer Threads