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Static and dynamic libraries for third-party code and imports from external repositories.

Code that's been around for a long time, with a team of developers working on it for a decade or more, tends to be big. The way it is with commercial software, you more or less have to keep adding features to compete; and it's dangerous to refactor much to eliminate code because of the risk of breaking backwards compatibility, so that introduces another form of duplication.

1GB of source, just source, is pretty big, though. Just the source from RAD Studio (the product I work on) is nearly 10 million lines, about 350 million characters - though that doesn't include the C++ compiler, C RTL, debugger kernel, and a bunch of other things.



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