From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: linux complexity trends
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:45:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0111261245430B.17193@snaresland> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111261836.NAA11696@augusta.math.psu.edu>
On Monday 26 November 2001 11:36, you wrote:
> Maybe source lines is not a good indicator of
> complexity, but I found something there really amusing.
>
I'm not given to defending linux, but you have to keep in mind:
- lots more architectures for linux
- lots more file systems (I know, this is an iffy comparison)
- lots more devices
- lots more exec format types, etc. This is either a misfeature or not, I'm
not sure.
What would be interesting is to compare, for a single architecture, the lines
of code for a comparable set of sources. Take all the file systems, drivers
etc. they both support and see how that compares. I am sure Plan 9 would
still win, but maybe by not as much.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-26 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-26 13:13 forsyth
2001-11-26 18:36 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-26 19:45 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
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2001-11-26 22:37 forsyth
2001-11-26 19:01 presotto
2001-11-26 17:56 presotto
2001-11-26 18:48 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-27 10:16 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-26 14:54 rob pike
2001-11-26 17:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-26 18:24 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-26 14:42 forsyth
2001-11-26 14:00 presotto
2001-11-26 12:41 steve.simon
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