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Re:Computer Code an Increasingly Precious E.V. Commodity by henrikschroder on Saturday January 22, 2011 @08:50PM (#2131577)
It can't possibly be true that the software of the Volt is 10 million lines.

First, it's not a reasonable amount of code for the task at hand. 10 million lines to monitor various sensors, and to control various systems? Really?

Second, it's not reasonable that any team could have produced that much code in this time. How long has the Volt been under production? A few years? You'd need a huge team to just crank out that amount of code in that time, and it would be of atrocious quality.

It's gotta be a journalistic exaggeration of some kind.

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Re:Computer Code an Increasingly Precious E.V. Commodity by sp332 on Saturday January 22, 2011 @08:56PM (#2131582)
(Lines of code / car) * number of cars = total lines of code

Right? Right?

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Re:Computer Code an Increasingly Precious E.V. Commodity by reitzensteinm on Saturday January 22, 2011 @10:00PM (#2131661)
They might be counting branches in source control as completely separate code bases. There could easily be 100k lines with 100 branches, for experimental changes, different cars, production freezes etc.
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Re:Computer Code an Increasingly Precious E.V. Commodity by ams6110 on Saturday January 22, 2011 @09:48PM (#2131640)
what kind of code? Assembly? Could be 10mm lines.
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