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It's actually written as several files and the "amalgamation" you download from the website represents those files concatenated together.

See this explanation: http://sqlite.org/amalgamation.html

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> The amalgamation file is more than 180,000 lines long and over 6 megabytes in size.

Yes, but the article also says that file is generated by a makefile from more than a hundred .c and .h files, and that it's done for ease of distribution and because optimizers do better with a single compilation unit.

It's not like the authors spend a lot of time working on the amalgamation and that's the way the project is developed.

To be fair, only 125,367 lines of that is actual c.

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