Re: Project review

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Project review
Date	2019-09-14 13:34 +0200
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On 13/09/2019 16:32, woodbrian77@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 8:18:54 AM UTC-5, Mr Flibble wrote:
>> On 13/09/2019 04:31, Ian Collins wrote:
>>> The video is interesting and probably (it's a presentation by Mark Zeren 
>>> from VmWare) relevant to your work.  He does make a strong case for 
>>> measuring executable size as a measure of code complexity.  Saying that, 
>>> it has no relevance to comparative compiler code sizes...
>>
>> Executable size is a measure of how much text is in the text segment and 
>> how much data in the data segments only, it is NOT a measure of code 
>> complexity at all.
>>
> 
> Yeah.  If a refactoring leads to a smaller binary size and 
> fewer lines of code, I'll probably use it.
> 

The size of the final binary is only loosely correlated with the size of
the source code.  And the size of the source code is only loosely
correlated with the complexity of the source code.

Executable size may be a useful metric in some circumstances, but it is
not in itself a useful indicator of code complexity.  (Nor is code
complexity a particularly useful metric either.)

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Project review woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2019-09-10 20:00 -0700
  Re: Project review Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-09-10 23:38 -0700
    Re: Project review woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2019-09-11 19:44 -0700
      Re: Project review Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-09-11 23:10 -0700
        Re: Project review woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2019-09-12 09:36 -0700
          Re: Project review scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-09-12 17:06 +0000
            Re: Project review woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2019-09-12 10:53 -0700
              Re: Project review scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-09-12 20:03 +0000
                Re: Project review "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-09-12 16:14 -0400
                Re: Project review Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-13 15:31 +1200
                Re: Project review David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-09-13 09:29 +0200
                Re: Project review Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-13 19:45 +1200
                Re: Project review David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-09-13 10:22 +0200
                Re: Project review scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-09-13 13:07 +0000
                Re: Project review David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-09-13 15:30 +0200
                Re: Project review Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.removethisbit.co.uk> - 2019-09-13 14:18 +0100
                Re: Project review woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2019-09-13 07:32 -0700
                Re: Project review David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-09-14 13:34 +0200
          Re: Project review Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-09-12 23:28 -0700
            Re: Project review woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2019-09-13 21:21 -0700
  Re: Project review Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.removethisbit.co.uk> - 2019-09-11 15:49 +0100
    Re: Project review rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2019-09-11 08:08 -0700
      Re: Project review Mr Flibble <flibble@i42.removethisbit.co.uk> - 2019-09-11 17:17 +0100
  Re: Project review Szyk Cech <szykcech@spoko.pl> - 2019-09-12 20:22 +0200
    Re: Project review Szyk Cech <szykcech@spoko.pl> - 2019-09-12 20:24 +0200
    Re: Project review woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2019-09-12 17:53 -0700

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