Posted Feb 19, 2010 10:33 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: Blank lines by nix
Parent article: How old is our kernel?
From the POV of the development process, yes, you are right.
But if you are measuring the age of the code, I would weed out anything that
ends up generating the same object code. Just my opinion there.
Posted Feb 26, 2010 8:51 UTC (Fri) by efexis (guest, #26355)
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Unless the blank lines were proportionally evenly distributed, in which case the effect would simply be cancelled out, but even so... a character changed in a long line of code counts the same as the whole line changing, but it's enough to give a feel for what's going on, as long as it's understood that these types of stats serve to guide towards reality rather than define it.