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

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2025-11-20T20:31:48Z

On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 04:49:51PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that is another discussion we can have --- whether line count alone
is what we want.

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