Re: Now 376175 lines of code

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-10-20T17:11:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > FYI, it is 376k lines of C code, not bytes.
> 
> How did you calculate that?  I get this using c_count over all .c and .h
> files:
> 
>  20903  lines had comments        25.4 %
>   6603  comments are inline       -8.0 %
>  11911  lines were blank          14.5 %
>   7287  lines for preprocessor     8.9 %
>  48716  lines containing code     59.3 %
>  82214  total lines              100.0 %
> 
> Surely we don't have 294000 lines of Java, C++, Shell, and Perl???

I just counted lines, not line content.  Not sure which is more
meaningful.  Our comments are as important as the code, sometimes,
though they do not add functionality to the application.  I am not
inclined to inflate numbers, but I am not sure the 59% number is
accurate either.

Opinions?

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