[OT] Walter about compilers

[Peter Alexander]

On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 15:26:28 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 14:59:48 UTC, Peter Alexander 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 14:44:26 UTC, Era Scarecrow 
>> wrote:
>>> It's been quoted that for every 10 lines of code there's a 
>>> bug. There are programs with tens of thousands of lines of 
>>> code, so finding every bug is probably impossible for large 
>>> programs (above 1000 lines).
>>
>> I love how >1kloc is "large" :D
>>
>> I'd say anything under 100kloc is a small program. 
>> 100kloc-1mloc medium, and >1mloc large.
>
> It really depends if we are talking about java or not.

Not just Java. According to Wikipedia Debian 5 has over 300 
million lines of code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code

Last time I counted, Phobos has ~200kloc.