LoC is a metric for manageability of the code base and compile time, and you might need other metrics to judge those two factors. For real world use wheen comp

LoC is a metric for manageability of the code base and compile time, and you might need other metrics to judge those two factors. For real world use wheen comparing OS you would generally go for other metrics like resource usage, multi threading bottlenecks, throughput of network packet and their processing, context switches(or equivalent) per second, and dozens of other things that would be paragraphs in length before you get to LoC.