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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. Re:Lines of Code by hondo77 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why? Are you still using an 80s-era Mac as your primary computer?

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  2. Re:Lines of Code by QRDeNameland · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If 1 Line of Code = 1 Library of Congress, you should acquaint yourself with the Enter key.

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  3. Re:Reply from actual kernel developer please . . . by earlymon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm a developer and was wondering what kind of testing is done to verify the code.

    Guinea pigs. Millions of us.

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