[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Einar Karttunen]

skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Why not? If you language is hard to read and you
> need more comments to explain it, it deserves
> to be penalised. IMHO. EG some special hack in C
> which saves time and LOC, but which requires
> in-depth understanding of the C Standard's rules
> about sequence points DESERVES to be penalised:
> good programmers should write that kind of C.

In the short tests typically comments are 50% of lines.
They mainly make notes about who contributed, tuned etc 
the benchmark. Sometimes they also make additional
notes about the implementation.

Most of the time these comments are nice and it would
be a pity to penalize languages for them. 

- Einar Karttunen