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Re:Ask HN: I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I... by jacquesm on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @09:42AM (#8257454)
100M lines of java code developed 'line-by-line' would make it one of the largest software projects that I've ever heard about.

Without telling you directly that you should disqualify yourself (after all I don't know you), if you don't have the knowledge about the tools employed to deal with medium sized projects (say up to 1M lines) how on earth will you deal with 100 times as much?

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Re:Ask HN: I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I... by klibertp on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @10:32AM (#8257768)
> 100M lines of java code developed 'line-by-line'

If it's not generated, then it may be "versioned" that way. I saw projects where the entire codebase was copied over to new directories tens of times, and no previous "version" was ever deleted.

But, after giving it some thought, 100 mloc is really MUCH, like in 50x more than anything I directly worked with. It does sound kind of improbable, but hey, it could happen :)

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