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Geek Culture / How long is your project (lines of code)?

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Drew Cameron
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Mine's just passed 4000 , and I'm wondering if that's abnormal -

I've noticed a bit of slowdown recently, and I'm wondering if the length of code could have something to do with it ...

Also, not all of it's being run at the same time, obviously, but can length of code slow a game down?

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 11th Mar 2005 00:17 Edited at: 11th Mar 2005 00:17
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Well, the most I ever had was 1700+ lines or so... But then again I can't keep my projects going for much more than a week (that one lasted a month)

Quote: "length of code slow a game down"

Hmmm, interesting question. No idea

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I guess you mean DBP projects now. *looks at IDE and the 10+ units with their many hundreds of lines of code, in each unit*

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@Drew: 4000 lines is nothing abnormal. A lot of major projects will end up in well in the tens of thousand, if not hundreds of thousands lines of code. Obviously this is less so in DBP as it cuts out a lot of coding, but I wouldnt be too worried.

Huge amounts of code will only slow down your code if it is processed continually. If this is the case, you'd want to start putting in conditionals to skip parts of the code which you dont constantly need to process.

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TKF15H
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huge amounts of code will slow down development... it take a while to compile large projects. My current project Aphotic VM has 6,000 lines of code, 99% of which are actually 3/4 commands on one line (to save space) and there are no blank lines or comments anywhere in there.

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Van B
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My project is about 5500 lines now, and it does affect frame rate depending on the size of program, but not by a huge amount - arrays etc will probably have an effect, but I did a little test just on a bloated .exe (like a little test loop at the start but all the code for my project too).

With project code: 408fps
Without project code: 396fps


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Just remember, "Less is best!"


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Benjamin
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The expression is "less is more".


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indi
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DT crept up to 15000 and the editor was 17000, its on hold while im doing other things tho and not dead.

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Benjamin
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Oh, well, my project is a billion lines of code. I had to buy a 10000000000000000000GB HD for it. I'm soo noooot joking.

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Osiris
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Make that a 9765625000000000 TB HD...what goes above terabyte?

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Three Score
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nothing made it there yet i mean there are only like up to 1tb hdds

hmmm my (secret) project so far is 682 lines with spaces and empty lines and a 20kb .c file but htis is just the gui i have not even began on the core(i think the gui is harder than the core though)

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My old Lemmings code (I will be bringing that back at some point) was less then 3000 lines, but if I shrunk it down so there were no white lines and no rem comments it'd be less then 1000.

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I believe I speak for half the community when I say "... project?"


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Firewall: 11,906 lines

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How about this my current project is 124 lines including rems and spacing! hahahahahaha of course i only have movement down....no shooting or anything like that...yet....

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Game client: 5656 lines of code
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Quote: "The expression is "less is more"."


You're trying to tell me what my own motto is? Ha!


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Benjamin
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Well..yes.


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Quote: "3/4 commands on one line (to save space) and there are no blank lines or comments anywhere in there"


bet that's easy to maintain...not! Blank lines and comments don't get compiled, so use them liberally.

I would expect a completed project to be upwards of 10,000 lines, and wouldn't consider anything abnormal. I have a 6,000 line program, but the main body is only 20 lines long. There are any number of conditions and multiplexing going on, so any one cycle will be less than 500 lines of code.

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Flindiana Jones
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mine is under 1,000...but is no where near done...

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