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These days, locale alone takes up 100MB of disk space, in case of Debian. Even without it, it's still difficult to go below 50MB, IIRC. Welp, even USB thumb dri
by esjeon 5y ago
These days, locale alone takes up 100MB of disk space, in case of Debian. Even without it, it's still difficult to go below 50MB, IIRC. Welp, even USB thumb drivers are much larger than that, so it won't be a problem, practically, but it's kinda puzzling to see how things can get this big.
- prox 5y agoI use to enjoy the blog of Virtual Dub, the author made this tiny video editor and talked frequently how things could be optimized without library dependencies. https://www.virtualdub.org/blog2/archive.html https://www.virtualdub.org/blog2/archive.html
- grishka 5y agoAdding a huge library dependency to only use a function or two from there feels like a common practice these days, unfortunately. More often than not, you can copy the interesting part into your project as sources, or even better, reimplement it in a way that's more specific, and thus more optimal, for your problem.
- hansel_der 5y ago> but it's kinda puzzling to see how things can get this big. the industry has been on moore's drug for too long and reckless software develpement practices really take their toll since the performance plateau came in effect around 2015.
- lewispollard 5y agoWell, that, and we have much better locale support.
- VHRanger 5y agoAlso people expect a lot of quality of life stuff like unicode instead of ASCII, larger resolution images, more hardware support etc.
- hansel_der 5y agotrue :)