Parallel Rogue-like benchmark

Ramon spam at thanks.no
Sat Aug 24 10:01:54 PDT 2013


I think that there is a lot speaking against sloc.

First it's often (ab?)used for "Ha! My language x is better than 
yours. I can write a web server in 3 lines, you need 30".
And then slocs say a lot of things about a lot of things. Like: 
Experience (being new or not used to X I'll need more lines in X 
than in "my" lang, say, D), built in vs. library, coding style, 
and others.

In the end "100 sloc in X vs. 180 sloc in Y" quite often means 
close to nothing. Putting it bluntly: If I know enough about all 
the relevant details of the languages+environment to arrive at 
having sloc mean anything useful, I won't need that comparison in 
the first place.


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