Chapter 7: Complexity
Thomas Huckle, Tobias Neckel · Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks · 2019
Software is becoming more and more elaborate and voluminous. Considering operating systems (OS), Windows XP had about 45 million lines of code, Mac OS × 10.4 about 86 million lines, and the Linux kernel 3.6 about 15.9 million lines of code.103 This increases the probability and the number of errors in a program, and, thus, also the vulnerability of the OS.