> The Language Shootout at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ has code > samples in many languages, both interpreted and compiled, including the > ones you mentioned. Don't trust the lines-of-code statistics, though -- > the LOC measure is wrongly shown as zero for several codes, and comment > lines are counted, so that languages with programmers who use more > comments are penalized.
afaik the LOC measure does not count comment lines - is there a specific example? Anyway, we continue to add new micro-benchmarks and deprecate old ones. We really welcome program contributions for the new and old tests - so send us some Python! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list