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 Friday, August 17, 2007

Lines Of Code In Popular Open Source Code Bases

(via Matt Asay)

I found this pretty interesting.

Lines Of Code (LOC) in some popular Open Source code bases:

  • Linux Kernel: 6 million
  • Sun Java Development Kit: 6.5 million
  • Sun StarOffice: 9 million
  • Eclipse: 17 million
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#    Comments [1] |
Friday, August 24, 2007 1:49:01 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
No wonder Eclipse runs like poo. Not being a Java developer, and therefore not being very knowledgeable on the subject, this makes me think that it's very possible to write a lot of sloppy Java code and have it end up packaged for worldwide distribution...
James | jamesAT NOSPAMnetmaki dot org
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