Claiming that "x isn't relevant" is completely meaningless unless you describe how it isn't relevant. Lines of code is a decent heuristic for complexity. An ac

Claiming that "x isn't relevant" is completely meaningless unless you describe how it isn't relevant. Lines of code is a decent heuristic for complexity. An actually-used (so you aren't generating spurious lines of code) 21 Mloc program is more complex than a 21 Kloc one. So, it seems pretty darn relevant to me.