definition for: #Nathans_law

(“Software is a gas, which expands to fill all its containers.”) meets the #memory_wall causing inefficiency by additional orders of magnitude since software packages often reach astronomic dimensions and running them requires large power-hungry and very slow extra memory capacity. The usual software code size unit is “MLOC” (Million Lines Of Code): for Windows XP (2001) with 40 MLOC, for Mac OS X 10.4 (2006) with 86 MLOC, and for SAP NetWeaver (2007) even with 238 MLOC.