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Facebook is composed of around 10 million lines of code [1] - the public facing web is big. I've no doubt Google looks at that and thinks it's almost trivially
by EwanToo 14y ago
Facebook is composed of around 10 million lines of code [1] - the public facing web is big.
I've no doubt Google looks at that and thinks it's almost trivially small (Chromium alone is 6.5 million lines [2]).
There's big apps in private, but very few companies are at that scale.
1 - http://www.quora.com/How-large-is-Facebooks-codebase http://www.quora.com/How-large-is-Facebooks-codebase
2 - http://www.ohloh.net/p/chrome http://www.ohloh.net/p/chrome
- joseph_cooney 14y agoI've worked in a number of medium to large financial institutions, and 10M LOC is nothing, really. They had subsystems that were bigger than that by a factor of 2.
- meaty 14y agoyes one of our 3rd party quoting engines' source tops 20mloc of java. Facebook is a really simple project compared to most of these sort of things.