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Re:Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site by tonyfelice on Monday October 21, 2013 @12:44AM (#6583383)
My reaction as well. Even 500 million bytes would be hard to believe.

While "efficient" is not a word that comes to mind when thinking about the government, 500 lines of code would be 1.6 lines for every man, woman, and child in this country.

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Re:Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site by EdgarVerona on Monday October 21, 2013 @12:51AM (#6583414)
This is where my hypothesis comes in. Instead of a database, they're codgening a small class and adding it to their codebase for every registered user, and recompiling the entire site immediately following that operation, blocking requests until the recompilation is complete. This hypothesis neatly explains both the terrible performance and the unimaginable LoC estimation.

:)

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