Some common systems and their (approximate) complexity:
US case law |
3 cubic miles of paper |
Debian |
283 million lines of code |
Mac OS X |
86 million lines of code |
Windows Vista |
50 million lines of code |
FreeBSD |
9 million lines of code |
Open Office |
10 million lines of code |
GTK+ v2 |
650 thousand lines of code |
electromagnetism |
4 lines of code |
Useful size comparisons:
2,000 |
journal article |
20,000 |
400-page book |
200,000 |
encyclopedia |
20,000,000 |
1000-book libary |
200,000,000 |
10,000-book library |
source: Ian Piumarta - Late-bound Object-Lambda Architectures (Potsdam S3, 2008) | PDF Slides | RealVideo Talk