[K12OSN] Windows Reliability Threatened
Kirk Rheinlander (kirk@kpj2.com)
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:56:49 -0600
Bill Gates testified yesterday that if Windows was broken apart into
component pieces, the product reliability would be compromised.
Does this mean that Windows reliability could get worse?
Any software architect worth his salt, knows that monolithic code on a
large project radically increases the complexity, and therefore, the
potential for errors, and resultant decrease in reliability.
If this is, as Mr. Gates testified, a monolithic entity that cannot be
easily broken apart, the potential for significant errors is not only
probable, it is a statistical guarantee!! With NT (the last Windows version
that I have documented KLOC data on) it had over 30 million LOC (lines of
code). Performance would be compromised, for everyone knows that
abstraction interfaces between modules decreases performance (that is why
Windows is so fast and LINUX so slow, right ;-)
Yet with 30 million lines of code, one would assume that significant
redundancy exists in the code.
OK, so the famed reliability of LINUX, being made up of many modular
entities, is a fluke?? And the "f[l]amed" [un]reliabliity of Windows is due
to it's superior design.
It is a good thing that this debacle is in a court of law; the technical
community should be able to see through this testimony as the sham that it is!
MHO - Kirk
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