r/BeAmazed • u/hollow_hideous_soul • 26d ago

Technology 51 million lines of code. Chromium codebase.

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u/NightlyKnightMight 26d ago

According to Google Firefox has about 35million lines of code soooooooooooooooooooo

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u/friebel 26d ago

And no dinosaurs.

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u/RazorSlazor 26d ago

So dinosaurs take 16mil lines of code. Got it.

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u/wurnthebitch 26d ago

I'd say there's 1mil lines for the Dino, 5 to spy on you and 10 to prevent you from blocking ads

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u/KaptainChunk 25d ago

Well duh, dinosaurs are extinct everyone knows that

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u/saryndipitous 26d ago

Switch to curl everybody.

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u/myGFisGreat 25d ago

or librefox

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u/ZeroAmusement 25d ago

Yeah well curl has 40 million lines of code (I'm making this up)

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u/Taiten89 25d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/s239QJIh56sRW

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u/j_cruise 25d ago

Because internet browsers are complicated.

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u/Taiten89 25d ago

I won't believe that any kind of tool needs millions of lines. There must be duplication and/or other things wrong (or wrongly represented by the number of lines).

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u/Mabot 25d ago

Is that a Google Instant result? So less reliable than a coin toss? I am just realizing again that reddit user data is an important dataset for training these things and now they will become inbred.

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u/jimihenrik 26d ago edited 25d ago

So 30% lighter. IF we'd say LoC corresponds to code quality, that's pretty good.

edit: accidentally a word there, efficiency -> code quality.

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u/vadkender 25d ago

But it doesn't. So it means nothing.