Yes, I think that was the main reason. It was kind if pointless, though, the biggest file I saw in my time there was around 10MB. How much bigger would that ha

Yes, I think that was the main reason. It was kind if pointless, though, the biggest file I saw in my time there was around 10MB. How much bigger would that have been with padding? Even an overhead of 100% probably would not have had much of a performance impact and saving a few megabytes of disk space or RAM was not a very strong argument at the time any more (roughly 2007 - 2009) On the other hand, this was a natural outgrowth of the other programmers' tendency to keep it simple and avoid bloat, which all in all I appreciated very much.