[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Bengt Kleberg]

skaller wrote:
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> 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

this is correct. unfortunatly i know of no automated way, nor is there a 
good manual way imho) to make sure that this happens.
ie, some weird code that ought to have lots of comments might not have 
them. and some very simple and straight forward code might get comments 
anyway becuse the language mandates it (or it could be tradition).


> Recall in my view LOC should play *some* part in
> the final rankings, but performance and memory use
> also count, so hopefully arguments about one line
> of comments won't be too heavy ;(  .. argg .. lol ..
> I'm probably wrong on that :)

i think that arguments about one line of comments will be heavy. i do 
not mind. i think it is ok to be able to discuss things. the opposite 
would be worse. ie, a test is removed/replaced without discussion. or 
just not accepted, without reason.


bengt