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If OP thinks Firefox is one of the largest C++ codebases in the world then OP has a very limited worldview.

• GhotVeren 8y ago
  That's true though, as far as the open source projects go. Only bigger C++ open source codebase I can think of is LLVM. What else did you have in mind?
  • ben0x539 8y ago
    Closed source codebases, presumably.
  • wglb 8y ago
    Er, firefox is reported to have 12 million, while llvm has 2 million. gcc is 7 million.
• postalrat 8y ago
  How many thousands are larger? Now how many thousands are smaller?
  • chessturk 8y ago
    Taking a total shot in the dark, but I imagine AAA video games constitute a crap-ton of C++ codebases larger than Firefox, but I wouldn't know for sure.
    • village-idiot 8y ago
      Finance tends to write a lot of C++ too, but I couldn't possibly estimate their code base sizes.
• wglb 8y ago
  The telephone switching system ESS 5 has 100 million lines of code. Many enterprises, particularly software-focused ones, are likely to have 30 million lines of code or more.