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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: 25		Avg Rank: 22		Avg Rank: 8		Log
		CPU	Rank	Mem	Rank	LOC	Rank
Ackermann's Function	ackermann.mawk	3.99	33	1912	25	10	10	log
Array Access	ary3.mawk	34.91	36	2156	23	10	4	log
Count Lines/Words/Chars	wc.mawk	0.54	6	1592	21	6	4	log
Fibonacci Numbers	fibo.mawk	6.28	32	1596	29	9	17	log
Hash (Associative Array) Access	hash.mawk	1.32	16	6128	13	9	3	log
Hashes, Part II	hash2.mawk	9.54	25	2604	12	9	2	log
Heapsort	heapsort.mawk	7.63	29	6104	29	43	4	log
Hello World	hello.mawk	6.18	26	1568	30	1	4	log
Matrix Multiplication	matrix.mawk	107.42	38	1744	22	33	7	log
Nested Loops	nestedloop.mawk	16.86	38	1592	30	11	4	log
Random Number Generator	random.mawk	2.01	27	1620	27	14	9	log
Regular Expression Matching	regexmatch.mawk	3.32	3	1592	7	32	11	log
Reverse a File	reversefile.mawk	1.80	18	14176	23	5	7	log
Sieve of Erathostenes	sieve.mawk	87.58	41	1916	27	17	10	log
Spell Checker	spellcheck.mawk	2.28	14	3812	11	11	8	log
Statistical Moments	moments.mawk	8.86	30	7220	23	66	28	log
String Concatenation	strcat.mawk	38.35	34	2288	23	7	10	log
Sum a Column of Integers	sumcol.mawk	1.53	12	1580	22	3	3	log
Word Frequency Count	wordfreq.mawk	2.28	8	2064	14	18	4	log
Tests Not Implemented For This Language: Method Calls, Echo Client/Server, Exception Mechanisms, List Operations, Object Instantiation, Producer/Consumer Threads