Talk:The Road to Performance Is Littered with Dirty Code Bombs
From Programmer 97-things
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[..] Fan-in, [..], is a count of all classes that depend upon the class of interest. Knowing fan-out and fan-in we can calculate an instability factor using I = fo / (fi + fo). [..] The goal in refactoring is to move I closer to 0.
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A literal interpretation of this is that you believed that it is not possible to refactor in a classless language.
