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Quote: the global coupling of 17 kernel modules grows exponentially with version number; lines of code grows linearly with version number; leads to maintenance issues
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restricted use of global variables
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The authors have examined 365 versions of Linux. … the 17 kernel modules and all the other … [i.e., the number of modules that share the same global variable]. The found that the number of instances of common coupling … additional variables are needed to explain this increase. … linearly with the version number [significant at 99.99%]. They conclude … common coupling will, at some future date, make … Google-1 Google-2
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