Re: Have the Itanium critics all been proven wrong?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Brian Drummond writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> I work on such an application: 2 million lines of code, multiple
>> processes running 24x7 on multiple machines, mission-critical, multiple
>> GUIs.  
> ...
>> Like I said we use almost every feature Ada has to offer, from high-
>> level tasks and protected objects to the lowest level of bit
>> manipulation ...  But these "scary" bits are few, far
>> between and well isolated; they must represent less than 0.5% of our
>> code base (still, 10 kSLOC or so...).  It is important to note that we
>> could do without those low-level tricks; they exist only for performance
>> reasons or to detect and diagnose rare errors.
>
> Interesting and good to know. But dare I ask ... (if you have any such 
> statistics to hand, or even a gut feel) ... what percentage of the bugs 
> arise out of that 0.5% of the code?

No bugs in the past few years because those parts of our code base are
20 years old or more and have been debugged to death; also only experts
are ever asked to work on them.  The fact that they are isolated in a
few package bodies helps, of course.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.