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If you see an application with 1% of 450gb worth of code, run as far as you possibly can. That's a Lovecraftian horror. Also, it also almost certainly does not

If you see an application with 1% of 450gb worth of code, run as far as you possibly can. That's a Lovecraftian horror. Also, it also almost certainly does not exist. The largest codebases would be lucky if they hit a 200MBs-2GB of straight code. And they're far an away the exceptions, not the norm.

geek_at 3y ago
They are probably talking about source code and assets, which makes 450gb very realistic
- deaddodo 3y ago
  The person I am responded to specifically said "code": > Games are individually often close to a hundred gb, and I'd assume the source code has more things They acknowledge they were mistaken about code size in a sister comment.
MarkSweep 3y ago
> it also almost certainly does not exist Google has billions of lines of code in one repo. I don’t have hard numbers on file sizes, but a billion bytes is a gigabyte. A billion lines taking tens of gigabytes does not seem unreasonable. https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/ https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-... > That's a Lovecraftian horror Perhaps.
- Aloisius 3y ago
  Google's repo contains more than a single application.
  - ChainOfFools 3y ago
    But you see, now we know that GP knows how big Google's repo is, a detail from which we are perhaps to conclude I suspect, falsely, but who knows) they are or were employed as an engineer there, despite making an argument that seems well below the common sense threshold even to a non-engineer, Google or otherwise.
- deaddodo 3y ago
  > Google has billions of lines of code in one repo. That repo has over a hundred apps. > I don’t have hard numbers on file sizes, but a billion bytes is a gigabyte. A billion lines taking tens of gigabytes does not seem unreasonable. Again, multiple apps/projects. But even so, I said the low GBs was possible and represents an extreme exception. Even with you stretching to find that exception, we're still far away from 450GB as a "normal" amount. So what is your point? My napkin math was off by a few GB? Congrats, got me.

geek_at 3y ago

They are probably talking about source code and assets, which makes 450gb very realistic

deaddodo 3y ago
The person I am responded to specifically said "code": > Games are individually often close to a hundred gb, and I'd assume the source code has more things They acknowledge they were mistaken about code size in a sister comment.

MarkSweep 3y ago

> it also almost certainly does not exist Google has billions of lines of code in one repo. I don’t have hard numbers on file sizes, but a billion bytes is a gigabyte. A billion lines taking tens of gigabytes does not seem unreasonable. https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/ https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-... > That's a Lovecraftian horror Perhaps.

Aloisius 3y ago
Google's repo contains more than a single application.
- ChainOfFools 3y ago
  But you see, now we know that GP knows how big Google's repo is, a detail from which we are perhaps to conclude I suspect, falsely, but who knows) they are or were employed as an engineer there, despite making an argument that seems well below the common sense threshold even to a non-engineer, Google or otherwise.
deaddodo 3y ago
> Google has billions of lines of code in one repo. That repo has over a hundred apps. > I don’t have hard numbers on file sizes, but a billion bytes is a gigabyte. A billion lines taking tens of gigabytes does not seem unreasonable. Again, multiple apps/projects. But even so, I said the low GBs was possible and represents an extreme exception. Even with you stretching to find that exception, we're still far away from 450GB as a "normal" amount. So what is your point? My napkin math was off by a few GB? Congrats, got me.