My Tags File Is Bigger Than Yours
So, I was quietly coding, minding my own business, when this crazy guy send me a message:
Crazy Guy: awwww yeah
Crazy Guy: -rw-r–r– 1 sean somegroup 4476447 Apr 11 15:51 tags
Apparently he decided to run ctags on the GCC source code. I couldn’t help but answer:
Jeff: that’s nothing
I ran “make tags” on the 2.6.16 kernel tree, and quickly replied with:
Jeff: -rw-r–r– 1 jsipek somegroup 50423236 Apr 11 15:54 tags
That’s right, the kernel tags file is 11.26 times larger! Or approximately 50% of the size of the GCC source tree! Mwhahaha. He underestimated the power of the kernel. He then went on to say:
Crazy Guy: ctags is my God
Jeff: ok..
Crazy Guy: I’m serious
Crazy Guy: I’m going to set up a little exuberant shrine
Crazy Guy: with a holy ] key suspended from a golden chain
Crazy Guy: and I will sacrifice source files to it every day