How many lines of code does Google’s codebase have?
Technology brutal Data from 2016
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The answer
2,000,000,000 lines
Roughly 2B.
Google’s codebase runs to roughly 2 billion lines, held in a single repository. Printed at 50 lines a page it would be a stack of paper about four kilometres tall. Thousands of engineers commit to it every day.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Potvin & Levenberg, Communications of the ACM |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2016 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | lines |
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