A developer built a 3D visualiser that flies through 2.5 million lines of code
The project shows how much memory a graphics-heavy view of a large codebase can demand from a machine.
A developer has built a tool that arranges source code in three dimensions, so that a user moves through a project instead of scrolling through files. The project has drawn wide attention online.
According to the account of the project, the visualiser works with roughly 2.5 million lines of code and keeps drawing at more than 120 frames per second while the viewpoint moves.
The cost is memory. Running it takes 21GB of RAM, a demand that decides which machines can handle it comfortably.
The available information gives no name for the developer or the project, no release date, and no indication of whether the tool will be published or remain a demonstration.
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