Re: 10% drop in code line count in PG 17

Hi,

> > While working on a talk, I studied the number of code line changes in
> > each major release, and found PG 17 surprisingly reduced code line count
> > by 10%. To get the code line count, I used /pgtop/src/tools/codelines,
> > which runs:
>
> [..]
> Overall, there is a 4% increase according to this tool. What is
> convenient about `cloc` - you can count only what you want, e.g. code
> without comments, etc.

Oops, I didn't notice that you were comparing PG16 and PG17. Still,
the result with `cloc` is similar, +4% approximately. Apologies for
the noise.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev