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rakpol on July 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

Isn't cyclomatic complexity just about the number of paths through code? It seems like (statically resolved) nested calls, as long as they don't loop or branch themselves, shouldn't increase cyclomatic complexity.

sb8244 on July 19, 2016 [–]

There may be subtle branches like error handling that can impact it for otherwise non branching code

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