r/BeAmazed • u/hollow_hideous_soul • 26d ago

Technology 51 million lines of code. Chromium codebase.

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u/3PoundsOfFlax 26d ago

Chromium is resource heavy, but it's actually really fast. Plus it's open source, so many good forks exist.

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u/Taiten89 25d ago

But why 50 mio lines of code? And from Google? And without competition? This can't be good.

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u/slightfeminineboy 25d ago

because browsers are complicated?

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u/Taiten89 25d ago

Yes, but if there are millions of lines, I'll assume there is a lot of duplication or something else wrong. I don't believe this much is necessairy for any kind of tool.

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u/slightfeminineboy 25d ago

you believe wrong 

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u/Visible-Title6180 19d ago

it's still condensed down to just 300 MBs when you download chrome so a lot of the code is for building and supporting other bits of code and logic it's like a framework

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u/Taiten89 19d ago

That doesn't say why it needs millions of LOC. If one LOC compiles to a dozen bytes in the binary in average, then the equation fits. (1MB = 1,024,000 bytes)

Methinks it's some code that shouldn't be counted in the LOC, like e.g. SVG graphics. Or tons of legacy code, in which case my point might not stand (I'll still defend it for the lolz).

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u/j_cruise 25d ago

It has competition. Safari and Firefox are both extremely popular.

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u/DreadingAnt 25d ago

"Extremely" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here 💀 reddit users are not representative of anything