[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Bengt Kleberg]

skaller wrote:
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> However, this doesn't mean comments should not cost:
> in the real world it not only takes time to write
> executable code -- it takes time to write comments.

true. especially if there is a prescribed company standard header for 
files and functions.


> In fact I would contend that writing good commentary
> is both harder and takes longer than writing code!
> 
> Consider that the actual code doing the work *also*
> costs, you're really arguing that people will drop
> comments because they cost LOC, but do not improve
> performance.
> 
> Well, isn't THAT the problem that we need to fix?

the current loc does not count comments. so what we are here talking 
about is a potential new locc system that counts both code and comments, 
right?

yes, it would be a good thing if the code-complexity metric of the 
shootout switched form beeing loc to a better system. i have not heard 
of such a system. i have not searched extensivly.


bengt