I'm no expert but it seems to me that the relative value of two programs (or functions or classes or whatevers) can be determined by only their LOC count only in the most trivial cases - e.g., a class that uses a single construtor/parameter signature and performs a single task under a single set of conditions.

If the logic has to handle multiple, possibly overlapping parameters and branching conditions in order to "do the same thing", then the longer code may well "outperform" the shorter one by whatever metric is most relevant to the use case (e.g., perform faster, use less energy, use less memory, be more readable, maintainable, portable, secure, or any weighted or unweighted combination of such metrics).

Does this make sense or am I missing something??