Gregory's Server@blacklight @thindil But now compare the performance and the average number of bugs with modern code that was written for an optimizing compiler. You may find that there are reasons for why we don't do that stuff anymore.
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@blacklight @thindil But now compare the performance and the average number of bugs with modern code that was written for an optimizing compiler. You may find that there are reasons for why we don't do that stuff anymore. 1 comment
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@Fiona I'm not sure do I understand correctly, but the average number of bugs didn't change over time. It is still approx. 1 bug per 100 lines of code. 😉 The problem is the size of modern software. 20 years ago, Linux, the kernel, has around 500k lines of code. Today around 30M. Performance, that's the Wirth's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law 🙂
We still do that things, just they didn't get their legends yet. They are too new. 🙂