Sloc Cloc and Code - Did I just get Buster Scrugged?

Treat Faster Tools as a Profile, Not an Insult I recently had this gracious github issue raised against scc related to another code counter mezura which has some impressive performance claims. Naturally, I decided to check it out. boyter@spongehead:/mnt/data/projects$ hyperfine 'scc ./linux' 'mezura ./linux' Benchmark 1: scc ./linux Time (mean ± σ): 512.2 ms ± 4.6 ms [User: 10362.5 ms, System: 985.7 ms] Range (min … max): 506.6 ms … 519.5 ms 10 runs Benchmark 2: mezura ./linux Time (mean ± σ): 200.3 ms ± 9.6 ms [User: 2898.5 ms, System: 643.5 ms] Range (min … max): 186.8 ms … 213.0 ms 14 runs Summary mezura ./linux ran 2.56 ± 0.13 times faster than scc ./linux Damn, I just got Buster Scrugged.