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From: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
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Subject: Re: quantifying bloat
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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:22:49 +0200 (CEST)
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hopcode <hopcode@invalid.de> wrote:

> Il 27.04.2012 17:56, bob ha scritto:
> > Has anyone ever tried to apply information theory to source code to
> quantitatively determine if code is bloated or not?

That is pretty easy. I use the following logic:

if (env_windows || env_unix_gnu)
    code_bloat == yes;