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> BUT, it makes the benchmark programs poor choices to compare the verbosity of languages.

Because?

Because the way some link to an external library is more verbose than the way they link to an included library?

Yes, that is what I mean. By the way, on the benchmark game website, is it still possible to sort benchmark results not by speed, but by gzip'd source code size?

On the task pages, click the column header:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

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