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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: linux complexity trends
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:45:43 -0700
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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