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Friday, October 24, 2008

Linux kernel exceeds 10 million lines of code

Studies conducted at the kernel of the Linux operating system have revealed very interesting data on this. One of the most important data is that it consists of more than 10 million lines of code, but it is important to mention that this amount includes blank lines comments to the code and text files.

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The growth in the number of lines is due to implementing new patches to make it more robust.
The analysis by the SLOCCount program, which is able to inspect and count only those lines of code revealed that actual number is 6,399,191
Another fact is that it is important to mention that 94.4% of the code is written in C language and 3.3% is written in assembly language.

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