r/BeAmazed • u/hollow_hideous_soul • 26d ago

Technology 51 million lines of code. Chromium codebase.

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u/CSouthLondon 26d ago

Can explain this to me as if I were a small child...or a golden retriever...it wasn't brains that got me here, I can assure you of that

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u/GreyGanado 26d ago

Every rectangle is a file with text in it. There's a lot of text that tells the browser what to do.

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u/NeighborhoodPrior956 26d ago

it's badixally 5x the biggest spreadsheet you've ever seen plus a more thorough instruction manual than any human had ever completed

32gb of ram is just a spreadsheet with 32 billion rows

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u/Embarrassed-Rise-685 23d ago

I can assure you no spreadsheet with 32 billion rows is loading in excel on a mere 32gb ram. Even if it theoretically fits with the filesize

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u/NeighborhoodPrior956 23d ago

i meant it more as a metaphor, that 32 gigabytes is just a table of 32 billion bytes, but you're absolutely correct.

excel is a steaming pile of all of the worst half-assed half-measures microsoft could muster, just so they could save negative 3 bazillion dollars on maintenance time.