| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Mark Cave-Ayland <m(dot)cave-ayland(at)webbased(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL 8.1 vs. MySQL 5.0? |
| Date: | 2005-10-10 23:56:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20051010235606.GI39569@pervasive.com |
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:51:48AM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Actually, the same could be said of Samba and Apache. I'll take one Tom
> Lane or Jan Wieck or (all the other postgresql hackers go here) over
> 1,000 MySQL hackers.
>
> I wonder what kind of result we would get if we compared something like
> "new lines of code per month / year" of the two projects....
Well, shouldn't be too hard to figure that out if someone's so
inclined. I know kloc numbers have been posted for the past several
versions of PostgreSQL; someone would just need to do the same for
MySQL.
Of course, it gets a bit tricky, since you have to define what is
actually MySQL code... ie, do you count InnoDB stuff?
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