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Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code

Posted by timothy on from the nice-round-figures dept.

javipas writes "A simple analysis of the most updated version (a Git checkout) of the Linux kernel reveals that the number of lines of all its source code surpasses 10 million, but attention: this number includes blank lines, comments, and text files. With a deeper analysis thanks to the SLOCCount tool, you can get the real number of pure code lines: 6.399.191, with 96.4% of them developed in C, and 3.3% using assembler. The number grows clearly with each new version of the kernel, that seems to be launched each 90 days approximately."

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  1. assembler? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 5, Informative

    *cough*assembly*cough*

    "assembler" is the tool, not the language.

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    1. Re:assembler? by hondo77 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Then again, maybe not.

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  2. Re:Um by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah but you can customize the Linux kernel. If you don't want features, just don't compile them in.

    It's easy, there's even a gui interface.

    Good luck compiling a custom NT kernel. :)

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  3. Not as much as you'd think by djupedal · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since that many lines = approx. 125,000 pages, which = approx. 0.0175 terabytes, and... a LOC is approx. 18 TB, I'd say they have a ways to go...

  4. Re:What did sloccount say the kernel was worth? by bendodge · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ohloh has a COCOMO calculator, which spits out ~$181M if you pay coders $55,000 a year.

    http://www.ohloh.net/projects/linux
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO

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