Re: Debian code size
On 03-Nov-1998, Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> wrote:
> [ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ]
>
> In the fast machine was idle and has a Debian source mirror dept.:
>
> I wrote a trivial script that goes through all the .dsc files in my
> Debian source mirror (hamm and slink mains only), unpacks each package,
> finds all *.c and *.h files and counts the their total size and number
> of lines with wc. The results:
>
> lines bytes packages
> hamm 37.41 865.713 1116
> slink 70.6M 1144.6M 1602
Impressive.
Please note that for a package such as Mercury (which is a compiler +
runtime system largely written in the high level logic language Mercury)
the source package includes *generated* C code -- about a million lines
or 35Mb it. This is a fair chunk of the total for a single package.
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