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Last I heard IE was closed source ... I'd love to know how he got his hands on the IE code base to make that measurement... All his posturing about - design dec
by taf2 14y ago
Last I heard IE was closed source ... I'd love to know how he got his hands on the IE code base to make that measurement... All his posturing about - design decisions being a business need of google make me wonder whether this was a M$ sponsored article...
- Someone 14y agoThey say 'estimated'. A way to do that is to look at the disassembly of IE code, assuming an on average constant number of assembly instructions per C statement. I don't think that is a bad assumption, but it does ignore potential differences between compilers. Also, IE source likely is available through Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx). After all, Microsoft has vehemently argumented that IE is inseparable from the OS. I think it would require some lenient interpretation of that license to use it for this purpose, though.
- yuhong 14y agoAFAIK, the compiler version used to compile any MS product can be figured out from the linker version stored in the PE header.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoWell you could instrument the source code and measure the number of calls, and compare that to the rough number of non-call ops per function. Not a perfect metric but it's something. His claims do seem far fetched though.
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- recoiledsnake 14y ago>M$ Please, this is not Slashdot or /r/linux. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22 http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22