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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:24:22 +0100
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On 22/04/2025 02:06, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>> On 21/04/2025 21:25, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>>> On 2025-04-21, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>>> On 21/04/2025 19:43, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-04-21, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 21/04/2025 04:16, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>>>>>>> - Because they are not gathered in one place, not only is it less>
>>>>>> readable, but we cannot use while write a macro such as:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>          for_sqlite_hash (p, &pSchema->trigHash) {
>>>>>>>            if (some_condition_over(p))
>>>>>>>              continue; // doesn't stupidly repeat for the same p!
>>>>>>>          }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't write such macros at all. I'm not even sure what this does.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you never worked with a large codebase written by someone other
>>>>> than you?
>>>>
>>>> How large are we talking about?
>>>
>>> Several 100K to millions.
>>
>> Characters, lines or files of source code, or bytes of binary?
> 
> I would say lines of code.  In modern time 1 million characters
> codebase is not big.  I hope that we are not in era of 1 million
> files codebases, but who knows, we may be there in few years.

I think it was 20 years ago that I read somewhere that the MS Visual 
Studio codebase was 1.5 million files. IIRC, it took 11 hours to build, 
non-optimised, and 60 hours optimised.