scc

Sloc Cloc and Code (scc)

A tool similar to cloc, sloccount and tokei. For counting physical the lines of code, blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.

Goal is to be the fastest code counter possible, but also perform COCOMO calculation like sloccount and to estimate code complexity similar to cyclomatic complexity calculators. In short one tool to rule them all and the one I wish I had before I wrote it.

Also it has a very short name which is easy to type scc.

Dual-licensed under MIT or the UNLICENSE.

Read all about how it came to be along with performance benchmarks,

• https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code/
• https://boyter.org/posts/why-count-lines-of-code/
• https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-revisited/
• https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-performance/

For performance see the Performance section

Other similar projects,

• https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei
• https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
• https://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/
• https://github.com/cgag/loc
• https://github.com/hhatto/gocloc/
• https://github.com/vmchale/polyglot

Interesting reading about other code counting projects tokei, loc and polyglot

• https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/59bm3t/a_fast_cloc_replacement_in_rust/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/82k9iy/loc_count_lines_of_code_quickly/
• http://blog.vmchale.com/article/polyglot-comparisons

Further reading about processing files on the disk performance

• https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

Pitch

Why use scc?

• It is very fast and gets faster the more CPU you throw at it
• Accurate
• Works very well across multiple platforms without slowdown (Windows, Linux, macOS)
• Large language support
• Can ignore duplicate files
• Has complexity estimations

Why not use scc?

• Unable to tell the difference between Coq and Verilog (currently, if enough people raise a bug it will be resolved)
• You don't like Go for some reason
• You are working on a Linux system with less than 4 CPU cores and really need the fastest counter possible (use loc or polyglot)

Usage

Command line usage of scc is designed to be as simple as possible. Full details can be found in scc --help.

$ scc --help
NAME:
   scc - Sloc, Cloc and Code. Count lines of code in a directory with complexity estimation.

USAGE:
   scc DIRECTORY

VERSION:
   1.12.1

COMMANDS:
     help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --languages                         Print out supported languages and extensions
   --format value, -f value            Set output format [possible values: tabular, wide, json, csv] (default: "tabular")
   --output value, -o value            Save to file, defaults to stdout
   --pathblacklist value, --pbl value  Which directories should be ignored as comma separated list (default: ".git,.hg,.svn")
   --sort value, -s value              Sort based on column [possible values: files, name, lines, blanks, code, comments, complexity] (default: "files")
   --exclude value, -e value           Ignore files and directories matching supplied regular expression
   --whitelist value, --wl value       Restrict file extensions to just those provided as a comma separated list E.G. go,java,js
   --files                             Display output for every file
   --verbose, -v                       Enable verbose output
   --duplicates, -d                    Check for and remove duplicate files from stats and output
   --complexity, -c                    Skip complexity calculations, note this will be overridden if --wide -w is set
   --wide, -w                          Wider output with additional statistics
   --averagewage value, --aw value     Integer to override the average wage value used for basic COCOMO calculation (default: 56286)
   --cocomo, --co                      Remove COCOMO calculation output
   --filegccount value, --fgc value    How many files to parse before turning the GC on (default: 10000)
   --binary                            Disable binary file detection
   --debug                             Enable debug output
   --trace                             Enable trace output, not recommended when processing multiple files
   --help, -h                          show help
   --version, --ver                    Print the version

Output should look something like the below for the redis project

$ scc .
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Language                 Files     Lines     Code  Comments   Blanks Complexity
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
C                          249    143701   103269     24163    16269      25906
C Header                   199     27537    18543      5768     3226       1557
TCL                         98     16865    14098       954     1813       1404
Shell                       36      1106      775       215      116         89
Lua                         20       525      387        70       68         65
Autoconf                    18     10821     8469      1326     1026        951
gitignore                   11       151      135         0       16          0
Makefile                     9      1031      722       100      209         50
Markdown                     8      1886     1363         0      523          0
Ruby                         8       722      580        69       73        107
HTML                         5      9658     8791        12      855          0
C++                          5       311      244        16       51         31
YAML                         4       273      254         0       19          0
License                      3        66       55         0       11          0
CSS                          2       107       91         0       16          0
Python                       2       219      162        18       39         68
C++ Header                   1         9        5         3        1          0
Smarty Template              1        44       43         0        1          5
m4                           1       562      393        53      116          0
Plain Text                   1        23       16         0        7          0
Batch                        1        28       26         0        2          3
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total                      682    215645   158421     32767    24457      30236
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Estimated Cost to Develop $5,513,136
Estimated Schedule Effort 29.350958 months
Estimated People Required 22.250054
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Features

scc uses a small state machine in order to determine what state the code is when it reaches a newline \n. As such it is aware of and able to count

• Single Line Comments
• Multi Line Comments
• Strings
• Multi Line Strings
• Blank lines

Because of this it is able to accurately determine if a comment is in a string or is actually a comment.

It also attempts to count the complexity of code. This is done by checking for branching operations in the code. For example, each of the following for if switch while else || && != == if encountered in Java would increment that files complexity by one.

Performance

Generally scc will be very close to the runtime of tokei or faster than any other code counter out there. It is designed to scale to as many CPU's cores as you can provide.

However if you want greater performance and you have RAM to spare you can disable the garbage collector like the following on linux GOGC=-1 scc . which should speed things up considerably.

Benchmarks are run on fresh 32 CPU Optimised Digital Ocean Virtual Machine 2018/09/19 all done using hyperfine with 3 warm-up runs and 10 timed runs.

scc v1.10.0
tokei v8.0.0 (compiled with Rust 1.29)
loc v0.4.1 (compiled with Rust 1.29)
polyglot v0.5.13
gocloc commit b3aa5f37096bbbfa22803a532214a11dbefa0206

Redis commit 7cdf272d46ad9b658ef8f5d8485af0eeb17cae6d https://github.com/antirez/redis/

CPython commit 471503954a91d86cf04228c38134108c67a263b0

Linux Kernel commit 7876320f88802b22d4e2daf7eb027dd14175a0f8 https://github.com/torvalds/linux

If you enable duplicate detection expect performance to fall by about 50%

API Support

The core part of scc which is the counting engine is exposed publicly to be integrated into other Go applications. See https://github.com/pinpt/ripsrc for an example of how to do this.

Adding/Modifying Languages

To add or modify a language you will need to edit the languages.json file in the root of the project, and then run go generate to build it into the application. You can then go install or go build as normal to produce the binary with your modifications.

Issues

Its possible that you may see the counts vary between runs. This usually means one of two things. Either something is changing or locking the files under scc, or that you are hitting ulimit restrictions. To change the ulimit see the following links.

• https://superuser.com/questions/261023/how-to-change-default-ulimit-values-in-mac-os-x-10-6#306555
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108174/how-to-persistently-control-maximum-system-resource-consumption-on-mac/221988#221988
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/61334
• https://serverfault.com/questions/356962/where-are-the-default-ulimit-values-set-linux-centos
• https://www.tecmint.com/increase-set-open-file-limits-in-linux/

To help identify this issue run scc like so scc -v . and look for the message too many open files in the output. If it is there you can rectify it by setting your ulimit to a higher value.

Low Memory

If you are running scc in a low memory environment < 512 MB of RAM you may need to set --filegccount or --fgc to a lower value such as 0 to force the garbage collector to be on at all times.

A sign that this is required will be scc crashing with panic errors.

Tests

scc is pretty well tested with many unit, integration and benchmarks to ensure that it is fast and complete.

Package

Run go build for windows and linux then the following in linux, keep in mind need to update the version

GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags="-s -w" && zip -r9 scc-1.0.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.zip scc
GOOS=darwin GOARCH=386 go build -ldflags="-s -w" && zip -r9 scc-1.0.0-i386-apple-darwin.zip scc
GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags="-s -w" && zip -r9 scc-1.0.0-x86_64-pc-windows.zip scc.exe
GOOS=windows GOARCH=386 go build -ldflags="-s -w" && zip -r9 scc-1.0.0-i386-pc-windows.zip scc.exe
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags="-s -w" && zip -r9 scc-1.0.0-x86_64-unknown-linux.zip scc
GOOS=linux GOARCH=386 go build -ldflags="-s -w" && zip -r9 scc-1.0.0-i386-unknown-linux.zip scc

Languages

List of supported languages. Note that this is always assumed that you built from master, and it might trail behind what is actually supported. To see what your version of scc supports run scc --languages

ABAP (abap)
ActionScript (as)
Ada (ada,adb,ads,pad)
Agda (agda)
Alex (x)
AsciiDoc (adoc)
ASP (asa,asp)
ASP.NET (asax,ascx,asmx,aspx,master,sitemap,webinfo)
Assembly (s,asm)
ATS (dats)
Autoconf (in)
AutoHotKey (ahk)
AWK (awk)
BASH (bash)
Basic (bas)
Batch (bat,btm,cmd)
Boo (tex)
Brainfuck (bf)
C (c,ec,pgc)
C Header (h)
C Shell (csh)
C# (cs)
C++ (cc,cpp,cxx,c++,pcc)
C++ Header (hh,hpp,hxx,inl,ipp)
Cabal (cabal)
Cargo Lock (cargo.lock)
Cassius (cassius)
Ceylon (ceylon)
Clojure (clj)
ClojureScript (cljs)
CMake (cmake,cmakelists.txt)
COBOL (cob,cbl,ccp,cobol,cpy)
CoffeeScript (coffee)
Cogent (cogent)
ColdFusion (cfm)
ColdFusion CFScript (cfc)
Coq (v)
Crystal (cr)
CSS (css)
CSV (csv)
Cython (pyx)
D (d)
Dart (dart)
Device Tree (dts,dtsi)
Dhall (dhall)
Dockerfile (dockerfile,dockerignore)
Document Type Definition (dtd)
Elixir (ex,exs)
Elm (elm)
Emacs Dev Env (ede)
Emacs Lisp (el)
Erlang (erl,hrl)
Expect (exp)
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (xslt)
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F* (fst)
Fish (fish)
Forth (4th,forth,fr,frt,fth,f83,fb,fpm,e4,rx,ft)
FORTRAN Legacy (f,for,ftn,f77,pfo)
FORTRAN Modern (f03,f08,f90,f95)
Fragment Shader File (fsh)
Freemarker Template (ftl)
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gitignore (.gitignore)
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Handlebars (hbs,handlebars)
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Kotlin (kt,kts)
LaTeX (tex)
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LEX (l)
License (license,licence,copying,copying3,unlicense,unlicence,license-mit,licence-mit)
Lisp (lisp,lsp)
LOLCODE (lol,lols)
Lua (lua)
Lucius (lucius)
m4 (m4)
Macromedia eXtensible Markup Language (mxml)
Madlang (mad)
Makefile (makefile,mak,mk)
Markdown (md,markdown)
Meson (meson.build,meson_options.txt)
Modula3 (m3,mg,ig,i3)
Module-Definition (def)
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MSBuild (csproj,vbproj,fsproj,props,targets)
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Org (org)
Oz (oz)
Pascal (pas)
Patch (patch)
Perl (pl,pm)
PHP (php)
PKGBUILD (pkgbuild)
Plain Text (text,txt)
Polly (polly)
Powershell (ps1,psm1)
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PSL Assertion (psl)
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Python (py)
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R (r)
Rakefile (rake,rakefile)
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Report Definition Language (rdl)
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Robot Framework (robot)
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Unreal Script (uc,uci,upkg)
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Vala (vala)
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