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Number of characters is a meaningless metric because it depends on identifier lengths, which can be very different between coding styles. A much fairer metric would therefor be the number of lexer tokens in my opinion.
Number of "words of code"?
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Depending on what you are working on you can pre-allocate everything you need and then turn the GC off. You can even do it in code which is nice. Similar approach to Java.
How?
well the cost estimate is a little bit funny. Probably inaccurate :D > Estimated Schedule Effort 25.879043 months > Estimated People Required 18.118657 Well I'm working alone on the project for 4 years...