Perl/perl5 has 1,190,418 source lines of code out of 1,899,404 total lines across 2,013 files, counted from the blead ref at commit 4e98a48cc732 by the OctoCounts tokei engine on 2026-10-23. The report is cached by commit, tokei version, and analysis options, so recounting the same revision returns exactly these numbers.
As of 2026-10-23 (commit 4e98a48cc732), Perl/perl5 contains 1,899,404 total lines: 1,190,418 code, 582,760 comments, 126,226 blank, across 2,013 files in 18 languages (top: Bitbake 42.7%). Custom configuration (tests excluded, docs excluded, generated excluded). Counted with tokei via OctoCounts.
OctoCounts produced this report by resolving Perl/perl5 to commit 4e98a48cc732, downloading the repository source archive, and counting every source file with tokei, the open-source line counter written in Rust. The table below breaks the count down by programming language into files, total lines, code lines, comment lines, and blank lines, so the figures can be compared across languages and projects. Results are cached by commit, tokei version, and analysis options, so counting the same revision again reproduces exactly these numbers.
This is a very large codebase by counted code lines. Code represents 62.7% of all lines, comments represent 30.7%, and the repository averages 591 code lines per file. Bitbake accounts for 42.7% of counted code.
| Language | Files | Lines | Code | Comments | Blanks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitbake | 19 | 515989 | 508481 | 2663 | 4845 |
| Perl | 1302 | 538898 | 380868 | 83703 | 74327 |
| C | 113 | 261695 | 182533 | 51339 | 27823 |
| C Header | 134 | 128086 | 91221 | 25765 | 11100 |
| Shell | 109 | 22468 | 15626 | 4707 | 2135 |
| Makefile | 5 | 4327 | 3143 | 687 | 497 |
| XML | 34 | 2573 | 2429 | 0 | 144 |
| YAML | 51 | 2222 | 2185 | 17 | 20 |
| Happy | 1 | 2051 | 1897 | 0 | 154 |
| JSON | 20 | 1309 | 1308 | 0 | 1 |
| Monkey C | 1 | 602 | 500 | 0 | 102 |
| Batch | 4 | 127 | 113 | 1 | 13 |
Top language (Bitbake 42.7%). Generated at .
Perl/perl5 has 1,899,404 total lines, including 1,190,418 code lines, 582,760 comment lines, and 126,226 blank lines.
OctoCounts resolved the public GitHub repository to commit 4e98a48cc732, downloaded the source archive, counted it with tokei, and cached the report by commit, tokei version, and analysis options.
This OctoCounts report was generated from blead at commit 4e98a48cc732 on 2026-10-23T08:57:13.628099399+00:00.
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