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I liked this comment elsewhere in the thread:

"Tab depth use in the kernel is more or less

  $ git grep -Poh '^\t+(if|do|while|for|switch)\b' | \
  sed -r 's/\w+//g' | \
  awk '{print length($0);}' | \
  sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
  903993 1
  339059 2
  89334 3
  18216 4
  3282 5
  605 6
  148 7
  36 8
  4 9
  1 10

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2005.3/06570.html

I like seeing these "back of the napkin" sorts of code snippets revealed... this is the sort of thing that happens frequently but isn't ever shared because of its throwaway/ephemeral nature.

And also, yeah, low tab depth is way more relevant than line length as far as clean code.