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From: Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>
To: Shannon --jj Behrens <jjinux@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] productivity improvement
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:16:34 -0400
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On Tuesday 09 July 2002 02:20 pm, Shannon --jj Behrens wrote:

> I wrote a bunch of programs comparing several
> languages using two different algorithms ("Simple" and
> "Modcount") for finding primes.  Eventually, I hope to
> throw these up on a Web page, but here is a summary of
> the results:
>
> Simple:
>   C:
>     Source: 76 lines
>     Binary: 5833 bytes
>     Sample Run: 1.56 seconds
>   Cyclone:
>     Source: 63 lines
>     Binary: 127264 bytes
>     Sample Run: 1.63 seconds
>   Ocaml:
>     Source: 35 lines
>     Binary: 138726 bytes
>     Sample Run: 3.57 seconds
>   Python:
>     Source: 28 lines
>     Binary: 1629 bytes
>     Sample Run: 13.6 seconds
>
> ModCount:
>   C:
>     Source: 95 lines
>     Binary: 6020 bytes
>     Sample Run: 1.08 seconds
>   Cyclone:
>     Source: 83 lines
>     Binary: 127391 bytes
>     Sample Run: 1.35 seconds
>   Ocaml:
>     Source: 54 lines
>     Binary: 139091 bytes
>     Sample Run: 3.66 seconds
>   Python:
>     Source: 44 lines
>     Binary: 4054 bytes
>     Sample Run: 91.8 seconds
>
> Line counts do not include blank lines or comments.

Hi

I intensionally used "program size" and not LOC, because C/C++ programmers 
like to use short lines and very short lines (containing a single "{" or 
"}"). How do the program sizes compare in terms of the number of non-blank 
characters, for example? [1]

Thanks

Oleg
[1] cat source | sed "s/ //" | wc -c
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