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Roughly 20% of the space used in Windows’ exe’s and .dll’s is EXIF and similar metadata in image assets. It’s very wasteful. They probably never tried to reduc
by kuschku 9y ago
Roughly 20% of the space used in Windows’ exe’s and .dll’s is EXIF and similar metadata in image assets. It’s very wasteful.
They probably never tried to reduce the size.
- mmastrac 9y agoThis seems unlikely, but giving you the benefit of the doubt - is there some research on this?
- noisem4ker 9y agoWindows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform https://www.thurrott.com/windows/109962/windows-bloated-thanks-adobes-extensible-metadata-platform https://www.thurrott.com/windows/109962/windows-bloated-than... Also previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192353 It turns out that the overall Windows bloat due to XMP tags amounts to something like 5MB.
- kuschku 9y agoInteresting, I missed the follow up, and had only read https://www.thurrott.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Bloat-Graphs.png https://www.thurrott.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Bloat-Gr...
- you_are_wrong 9y agoThis is not true, it's a much smaller percentage, negligible overall.