Tomi the Slav and 1024 others
daniel:// stenberg://I know you've always been curios. How does the #curl code base compare to a few great literary works of art when it comes to number of words?
Happy to be at service:
I opted to not include the full "In Search of Lost Time" series (by Marcel Proust), which clocks in at 1,267,069 words apparently...
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉@bagder I was like a hundred pages into his description of eating a cookie before I gave up. I bet the curl cookie handling code doesn't take a hundred pages.
Robin Whittleton@bagder in Standard Ebook’s catalogue, curl is somewhere between the full collection of Tolstoy’s short fiction, and Dumas’s The Vicomte de Bragelonne: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?page=118&sort=length
Dave
John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡✊🏻✊🏿@bagder I wouldn't be boasting about that if I were you! 😂
@FaithfullJohn this isn't boasting. This is raw cold facts.
mhd
a sauna tent would fix me
bazzargh@bagder you could have a line like this on your chart of charts of curl over time, showing that number being more than the number of surviving paintings by Leonardo da Vinci (about 8), of self portraits by Rembrandt (about 40), less than the number of paintings by Van Gogh (around 900) etc
hebus 🐎@bagder
There's a (french) wikipedia page that lists the longests books
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_plus_longs_romans
There's a (french) wikipedia page that lists the longests books
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_plus_longs_romans
Frank Gevaerts@bagder You know you're going to trigger a few people by calling LotR a trilogy, right? :)
@FrankGevaerts I needed a way to clarify that it means those three books!
@bagder By "those three books", do you mean Book 1 and Book 2 which are in volume 1 and Book 3 which is the first half of volume 2? It's not very clear!
@FrankGevaerts I mean without The Hobbit =)
@bagder Yes, of course. Very different!
@FrankGevaerts I left out that it also includes the appendices, which are significant =)
Stefan Eissing
pttaaa@icing @bagder @FrankGevaerts
> One command line tool and library to {rule them all,find them,bring them all}
:D
> One command line tool and library to {rule them all,find them,bring them all}
:D
nex 
Lord Doctor Olle W@bagder There are still more characters in War & Peace.
Stan@bagder Yay, another graph! I need to do this for the Python docs! (Which are I think bigger than the cURL codebase now… https://blog.python.org/2026/03/cpython-codebase-growth/ ;-)
@stanfromireland quite a lot larger indeed! (the click to zoom doesn't work!)
Banda BassottiI wonder how that compares to series that were being released over that time, so they weren't constant length.
e.g. ASOIAF
♂️Mel Day Physics PhD IT CAS June 2026 MSLIS (he/they)♂️Anyone who says they can explain curl is lying
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