Engineering code quality in Firefox

Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by sondr3 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @03:19AM (#22943054)

I think at scale (according to Wikipedia the 5.6 release has ~33M lines of code) the Linux kernel might be one of the easiest (and quickest) projects to compile[1].

[1]: https://techgage.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Compile-Perf...

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Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by gpderetta on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:58AM (#22943931)

I haven't compiled my own kernel in at least 15 year but I remember it was quite easy (is make menuconfig still the way to go?). I did have much more free time though.

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Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by haihaibye on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @08:06AM (#22944646)

Surely most of those lines of codes are optional modules and device drivers - so aren't compiled for most users or this test?

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