How many computers in the world are running your code?
How many computers in the world are running your code?
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
Or you mean maybe what's the reach of your code?
On my case, my most successful project only has two computers and a load balancer last time I checked some 8 years ago. That's a small footprint. But the public university application, calculation and final results system they run has served close to 300,000 students every year for the past 11 years. It is still the same software I built in 2 months on that hot summer of 2002.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
O_o
Both of these questions seem hard to pin down. What is the limit of contributed code? If you are asking about complete applications, I'd guess that maybe 5000 people played my "rouge-like", and my early "Perl" web stuff was probably accessed by several tens of thousands, but I'd be more likely to forward code on work I can't claim as "mine" in several open source projects.
Soma
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“Four isn't random!” -- Gibbering Mouther
Code that's part of something bigger still counts, as long as it actually executes and contributes something concrete to the software.
People who contribute code to operating systems (either open source or not) have a big advantage on this one.
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
I'm in pagers, mobile phones, POS's and related devices. Is it a coincidence that I wear 6D wide shoes? (I assumed it was from all the barefoot soccer as a yoot. Bunions don't help either.)
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Software that I have written has been deployed on several thousand computers, and server-side components of that software are accessed by several thousand more. I've also contributed patches to CodeLite, so it's anyone's guess how far that reaches.
What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It's got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?
On the conservative side, I'd say somewhere between 50-100. If you include a bunch of small fixes to OpenCASCADE community edition, probably somewhere between 10,000-500,000, a lot of things use OpenCASCADE.
I guess I haven't gone yet.
I have code in Windows, Mac OS X, and several big-name desktop applications. So, guessing conservatively, I'd say 500 million computers but that might be an underestimate. If it was a billion machines I wouldn't be surprised.
Codeplug: You do embedded, so you're probably way the heck up there as well. I'm starting to get code into such things, so maybe one day I'll crack two billion systems? It's impossible to know.
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
Actually, realizing that I had made an intranet site for a company I worked for, I'll revise my conservative measure to 300-500
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
- Albert Einstein.
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