Fwd: Re: [Shootout-list] Ray tracer developments

[skaller]

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 23:10, Isaac Gouy wrote:

> > LOC is of course a poor measure of complexity.
> > So a hard LOC limit is hard to justify.
> 
> LOC is a poor measure of how long the code is, let alone anything else.
> Most folk notice that the original OCaml programs compress more onto
> one line than they otherwise might.
> 
> I don't understand how LOC could be a surrogate for complexity.

No disagreement really, however LOC is more or less
all we have. We could count tokens instead.

I don't have a better idea of a quantitative measure,
other than perhaps voting :)

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