Apparently, we&#x27;re speaking Lojban here, not English, so therefore I&#x27;m not allowed to use figures of speech as they may be evaluated pedantically by those who wish to win an argument in bad faith.<p>But fine, you wanted numbers. First, systemd&#x27;s LoC count is 699,342 across 1,912 files as of a git clone of their SCM[1] and gitstats five minutes ago.<p>That number was around 550,000 back in May[2], so kindly update your knowledge before regurgitating it mindlessly.<p>Debian&#x27;s (sid) sysvinit package[3], by the same methodology, is 32,151 lines across 235 files.<p>Systemd is therefore about 22x (21.75179621162639) more complicated than sysv.<p>I&#x27;d go run the numbers for Upstart, but I&#x27;m not going to go download bzr and appropriate profiling tool to conclusively prove something that&#x27;s common knowledge to anyone not in an internet argument.<p>And kindly stop complaining about downvotes - it&#x27;s against the site rules.<p>[1]:<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;anongit.freedesktop.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;systemd.git" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;anongit.freedesktop.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;systemd.git</a><p>[2]:<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTY5NjM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTY5NjM</a><p>[3]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anonscm.debian.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;collab-maint&#x2F;sysvinit.git" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anonscm.debian.org&#x2F;git&#x2F;collab-maint&#x2F;sysvinit.git</a>