insights: [spike] investigate methods for lines of code calculations
Created by: leonore
having an insight for lines of code per language across multiple repos is a common customer request.
there's ways of doing this with compute (content:output(.*\n -> $lang) count:all
) and it works across small repos
but there's some problems with it:
- monorepo performance is bad (doesn't work)
- performance across multiple repos is bad
this issue is about investigating whether this would be feasible to do over the filesystem (hitting gitserver) instead of search