Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @05:32AM 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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Periods and Commas by spintriae · 2008-10-22 06:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

6.399.191, with 96,4% of them developed in C, and 3,3% using assembler.
Way to mismatch periods and commas there.
Re: so freaking what? by eat+here_get+gas · 2008-10-22 06:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

i'm sorry, how the fuxk is this news? 10 million lines, whoop-de-freakin'-do. Windows (probably) has more lines than that, and THAT'S not even news...more lines. more bloat.

slow news day?

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