It's all about the LOC! Actually, I kind of agree - having worked on some MegaLOC codebases that functionally seemed to be no more complex than a 10KLOC project I'm involved in, the 10KLOC project is much more nimble - compile times are far less, making changes to the code easier and bugs less troublesome to winkle out.
I've also refactored or rewritten pieces of code to slash the LOC by a factor of 3 or more for that particular section (eg 3KLOC -> 1KLOC) - but usually when bugs and problems kept on cropping up in that section. Even though the LOC is an entirely bogus measurement - if you paid a programmer by LOC, you'd get boilerplate and crappy comments. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
