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Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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Milestone passed with the debut of Linux 6.14 rc1.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's cheating. It won't actually make the code smaller.

[–] brian@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

source?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Common sense. Just making the same code into a single line won't change much.

[–] brian@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that doesn't sound right, it's so much smaller if it's just one line

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The line will be like several quadrillion characters long though.

[–] brian@programming.dev 15 points 2 months ago

but if there's a bug I'll know exactly which line to look at