Re: Now 376175 lines of code
Gunnar R|nning <gunnar@candleweb.no>
From: Gunnar R|nning <gunnar@candleweb.no>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-10-21T10:03:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > 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. > Counting the number of lines is only meaningful as a relative measurement of complexity and spent effort - IMHO. And I think lines of code measurements usually ignore blank lines and lines with comments. However, Preprocessor directives is code - and sometimes it would be fair to add some extra lines for the increased complexity caused by cool CPP macros ;-) Regards, Gunnar Gunnar