C in codebase has shrunk to 25% of Classic

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Apr 14 20:46:25 UTC 2017


Hal's async-DNS simplification finally did it. We have removed three
out of every four lines of code present at fork time.

This is significant because a "factor of four" reduction is both
impressive and easy for people to understand.  Now we can say that.
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