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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: 20		Avg Rank: 13		Avg Rank: 13		Log
		CPU	Rank	Mem	Rank	LOC	Rank
Ackermann's Function	ackermann.lua5	2.71	31	840	15	11	16	log
Array Access	ary3.lua5	F	(F) *	F	(F) *	12	8	log
Count Lines/Words/Chars	wc.lua5	2.93	23	620	10	9	8	log
Exception Mechanisms	except.lua5	2.25	17	620	8	32	12	log
Fibonacci Numbers	fibo.lua5	5.66	30	612	13	6	4	log
Hash (Associative Array) Access	hash.lua5	2.31	23	12512	32	10	6	log
Hashes, Part II	hash2.lua5	3.37	11	2856	14	13	8	log
Heapsort	heapsort.lua5	3.19	21	2712	15	49	14	log
Hello World	hello.lua5	1.49	10	596	13	1	4	log
List Operations	lists.lua5	3.76	19	2120	13	80	28	log
Matrix Multiplication	matrix.lua5	8.45	24	776	14	37	15	log
Method Calls	methcall.lua5	5.43	21	612	11	51	19	log
Nested Loops	nestedloop.lua5	3.78	30	604	13	16	15	log
Object Instantiation	objinst.lua5	13.85	22	656	7	56	18	log
Random Number Generator	random.lua5	2.22	28	616	12	14	9	log
Regular Expression Matching	regexmatch.lua5	4.76	7	632	1	16	2	log
Reverse a File	reversefile.lua5	1.62	13	5228	12	9	17	log
Sieve of Erathostenes	sieve.lua5	16.35	25	752	15	22	22	log
Spell Checker	spellcheck.lua5	1.52	7	5992	21	7	2	log
Statistical Moments	moments.lua5	1.45	16	2748	13	41	6	log
String Concatenation	strcat.lua5	0.76	28	1512	16	31	44	log
Sum a Column of Integers	sumcol.lua5	6.57	27	648	12	5	11	log
Word Frequency Count	wordfreq.lua5	3.11	11	1440	8	23	9	log
*Test Implemented but not measured (timeout or error).
Tests Not Implemented For This Language: Echo Client/Server, Producer/Consumer Threads