[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[John Skaller]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 08:19 -0700, Isaac Gouy wrote:

> Correct - LOC is a convenience not a necessity, sensible people will
> look at the source code. The main service provided by shootout is
> measurement of CPU times and memory use.

I don't agree .. the main service provided is the collation of a lot
of code in different languages doing the same set of easy to 
understand jobs.

> Personally I'm not interested in officious quarrels about "rules" - 100
> LOCs of Java / C# was a ballpark target for the attention budget of
> someone browsing the website.

I agree with that though :)

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