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A more useful metric

A more useful metric

Posted Sep 10, 2008 12:43 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: A more useful metric by spender
Parent article: Kernel security, year to date

>"First the problem [with] Linux is that there are too many people 'hacking' the code. It has reached a complexity where the 'I-hack-quickly-some-code' approach doesn't work anymore."

Complexity... is only half of the story. LOC divided by complexity (unitless number, lower is better) is what you need to look at.


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A more useful metric

Posted Sep 10, 2008 12:45 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

epic fail :)
Of course it should be complexity/LOC with lower-is-better.

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