Gzip-ed bytes of code is pretty great, and relatively fair to languages with verbose (but isomorphic) syntaxes. It's aiming to count the information content. A

Gzip-ed bytes of code is pretty great, and relatively fair to languages with verbose (but isomorphic) syntaxes. It's aiming to count the information content. A benchmark counting the unshared working set would be pretty decent, but quite unkind to news.arc -- counting all of Arc and most of MzScheme as part of your program. MRI Ruby programs would be totally fucked, since the mark-happy GC keeps any library code from being shared between fork()ed processes.