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by phkahler 3483 days ago
It might be useful to fit an exponential for each years code. The oldest code seems to decay to some constant and then linger forever at some LOC - it does not decay to zero LOC. It may be that new code is inherently inefficient and over time is gets cleaned up. Also some functionality may be abstracted and built into new code and removed from the old. Over time you end up with a chunk of code doing its one thing and doing it well. This is all speculation of course. I hope this gets looked at a lot more.