This benchmark measures execution time of identical computational tasks implemented natively in six languages
(Python, C, C++, Rust, Go, Lua) plus Bash system utilities (wc, grep, awk). The goal is to understand the real-
world performance characteristics of each language as a pipeline stage in mshell workflows, including pure
computation speed, system operation speed, pipeline overhead (including compilation), and repeatability across
runs.
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