Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3rrQ-0003GG-2G for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:44:44 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.223.170 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.223.170; envelope-from=gmaxwell@gmail.com; helo=mail-ie0-f170.google.com; Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com ([209.85.223.170]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1Y3rrP-0005g1-AJ for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:44:44 +0000 Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id rd18so7953342iec.29 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:44:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.107.83 with SMTP id c19mr26977278icp.48.1419450277785; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.107.16.30 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:44:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:44:37 +0000 Message-ID: From: Gregory Maxwell To: Will Bickford Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gmaxwell[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1Y3rrP-0005g1-AJ Cc: John Tooker , Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reading List for Getting Up to Speed X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:44:44 -0000 On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Will Bickford 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.