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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 07:29:06AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> Any thoughts on how to measure "consolidation effects"?  I toss out
> numbers on code removal sometimes, but that turns out to not be a whole
> lot more useful than anything else on its own.

It'd probably help if we could split out the framework and driver code,
but at the end of the day it's all just stats and therefore has to be
taken with a pinch (or large helping) of salt.