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kovidgoyal · 02-01-2011, 01:39 AM

You will find porting calibre to C++ impossible. calibre alone is over 200,000 lines of code and that is ignoring all the python dependencies it relies on. Since I'd estimate that achieving the same result in C++ would on average require 5-10 times the code, you're looking at writing 1-2 million lines of code. Given that on a perfect day I can write and test about a 1000 lines of python code, it would take atleast 3 years to port calibre to C++.

02-01-2011, 01:39 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,434 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You will find porting calibre to C++ impossible. calibre alone is over 200,000 lines of code and that is ignoring all the python dependencies it relies on. Since I'd estimate that achieving the same result in C++ would on average require 5-10 times the code, you're looking at writing 1-2 million lines of code. Given that on a perfect day I can write and test about a 1000 lines of python code, it would take atleast 3 years to port calibre to C++.