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Not likely. Modern software developers laugh this kind of difference away, and will almost always default to taking a memory/storage space hit over other possib

Not likely. Modern software developers laugh this kind of difference away, and will almost always default to taking a memory/storage space hit over other possible trade-offs (performance, correctness, convenience...)

watermelon0 5y ago
Considering storage/memory requirements for modern desktop/mobile apps, I wouldn't mind if developers would occasionally think about optimizing them.
- Dork1234 5y ago
  Nah, we computer scientist are happy embedding electron into every application no matter how small.
- xigoi 5y ago
  Storing non-numeric data as strings is not what makes modern apps bloated. It's the technologies used (Electron) and a general “I don't care” approach.
selfhifive 5y ago
Application developers not system engineers. People who work on high performance servers will always look to reduce overhead as much as possible.