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If by benchmark of quality you mean code with the lowest defect density ("Defect density refers to the number of defects per 1000 lines of software code.").
by nolok 13y ago
If by benchmark of quality you mean code with the lowest defect density ("Defect density refers to the number of defects per 1000 lines of software code.").
- shabble 13y agoand if by 'defect' you mean 'thing flagged by coverity analysis tools'.
- Kurtz79 13y agoIt's a quantifiable index. It's by no means the definition of "code quality", but others parameters (readability, efficiency, encapsulation, etc.) are in good part subjective and very hard to translate into numbers, I think.
- derrida 13y agoIf that is the benchmark, then Minix beats Linux in virtue of not containing device drivers in kernel space. [1] DD's have 3-7 times as many bugs in Linux than the other code. [2] Linux can do better and I am sure Linus would admit this. [1] http://www.minix3.org/other/reliability.html http://www.minix3.org/other/reliability.html [2] http://www.osnews.com/story/15960 http://www.osnews.com/story/15960