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On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Will Bickford <wbic16@gmail.com> wrote:
> A tally from August indicated that I may need to slog through 280,000 lines

You're counting 170kloc of machine generated code with the translation
strings there.

The top level (/src) and libconsensus are only about 36kloc. This is
small enough that I would strongly recommend at least skimming all of
it.