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> a sufficiently complex C project (6000 lines, more or less) Is there a 0 missing? 6k lines of C is on the lower end of things, especially given how verbose v

• lelanthran 2y ago
  > Is there a 0 missing? 6k lines of C is on the lower end of things, especially given how verbose vanilla C can be for basic stuff... No zero missing. Routines for dynamic arrays/vectors, hashmaps, strings, etc (i.e. the basic stuff) are already in precompiled libraries (*.so). The programs (there were two) consisted of an agent that sat on a remote box gathering packet traces and listening for commands to start/stop/change expression for capture, and would store+forward that capture to a server, which saved the capture in a format wireshark was able to read. 6000 lines is about right for something of that complexity.
  • menaerus 2y ago
    AST representation of 6k LoC could probably fit for the most of its part into the L3 cache of modern CPUs. C and C++ build process is mostly a memory-bound problem.