It seems in 2006 the Darwin XNU package was 1MLOC and the Kext another 1MLOC, so I have hard time believing that 11 others MLOC where needed for the iPhone KERN

It seems in 2006 the Darwin XNU package was 1MLOC and the Kext another 1MLOC, so I have hard time believing that 11 others MLOC where needed for the iPhone KERNEL. https://books.google.fr/books?id=K8vUkpOXhN4C&lpg=PA49&ots=OLphYU_rYx&dq=mac%20os%20kernel%20line%20of%20code&hl=fr&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q=mac%20os%20kernel%20line%20of%20code&f=false https://books.google.fr/books?id=K8vUkpOXhN4C&lpg=PA49&ots=O... Linux 3.13 is 7 MLOC in drivers, 2 MLOC in arch, and only 139 KLOC in kernel, so it's probably the drivers that inflate a kernet size but I doubt the iphone needed so much drivers. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223746/why-is-the-linux-kernel-15-million-lines-of-code http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223746/why-is-the-li... The guy is probably talking about changed lines (added, removed, changed) and might be liking to fiddle with its code style a lot.