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The Linux kernel currently is around 450MB of source code. I've worked on individual projects with 1-2MLOC, I suspect that's about 100MB of code. A couple of th
by pmjordan 16y ago
The Linux kernel currently is around 450MB of source code. I've worked on individual projects with 1-2MLOC, I suspect that's about 100MB of code. A couple of those don't seem all that implausible.
- gaius 16y agoHmm yulia:/usr/src# bzcat linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2 |wc -c 382382080 382M. Tho' is it really one "thing"? A lot of that is device drivers, loadable modules etc that no single install will ever have.
- pmjordan 16y agoI guess my 450MB are from 2.6.34 and are the disk usage of the actual untarred sources that I'm working from, so my figure includes cluster off-cuts (the bytes needed to round up to the nearest 4096 for each file). It's certainly one thing in that it all uses the same build script; and any of the pieces are pretty worthless on their own.