Re: kernel hugitude

Seth Goldberg (consp05@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:48:24 -0400

At 11:30 AM 4/23/96 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Ben Wing wrote:
>
>> A milestone has been reached -- kernel 1.3.94 (compressed even!) is now more
>> than twice as big as kernel 1.3.0.
>
>here are the statistics:
>
>Lines of C source: 532552
>Lines of C include: 106494
>Lines of Assembly: 41099
>--------------------------------
>Summary of Lines: 680145
>
>Characters of C source: 14436310
>Characters of C include: 3302483
>Characters of Assembly: 1057586
>--------------------------------
>Summary of Characters: 18796379
>--------------------------------
>Characters per Line: 27 <--- cool, couldnt be better
>
>680K lines ... gonna hit 1M lines soon? :))

You think that's BIG?? Are you nuts? I'm working with the Solaris 2.4
source code now -- and I cant even begin to estimate the number of lines :)
_ But I'll say that it's an order of magnitude more that that :)

_Seth