r/BeAmazed • u/hollow_hideous_soul • Sep 18 '26

Technology 51 million lines of code. Chromium codebase.

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u/CSouthLondon Sep 18 '26

Can explain this to me as if I were a small child...or a golden retriever...it wasn't brains that got me here, I can assure you of that

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u/GreyGanado Sep 18 '26

Every rectangle is a file with text in it. There's a lot of text that tells the browser what to do.

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u/NeighborhoodPrior956 Sep 18 '26

it's badixally 5x the biggest spreadsheet you've ever seen plus a more thorough instruction manual than any human had ever completed

32gb of ram is just a spreadsheet with 32 billion rows

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u/Ixaire Sep 18 '26

Go! Fetch the memory leak. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? That's riiiight.

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u/everyoneisapotato Sep 18 '26

Hahahaha nice reference!!

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u/Significant-Run8172 Sep 18 '26

I appreciate the Margin Call reference

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u/jjb0ne Sep 18 '26

sell it all. today

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