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this statement is not in line with the current reality for app downloads. Yes, it could be smaller, but that does not mean it is "not small" I'm surprised when
by masukomi 4y ago
this statement is not in line with the current reality for app downloads.
Yes, it could be smaller, but that does not mean it is "not small" I'm surprised when i download an app and it's less than 100MB these days.
that's not to say that 100MB is good, or that it's reasonable that downloads are as big as they are, but the fact is that they _are_ way bigger than 2.1MB. As designating something "small" or "large" is literally a relative measurement. So, unless you're comparing it against an atypical set of apps, or apps from a prior era of development, it is definitely "small".
- goodpoint 4y agoNo, I wrote "binary". Also, Featherwiki is not an app. Most apps I download from f-droid are quite small and the bigger ones contain images, sounds and even animations. 2 MB are a lot for just CPU instructions assuming we are talking about compiled languages. Of course some languages can create very large binaries anyways - but that's due to their inefficiency. In fact, ls -Ssrh /usr/bin shows that the vast majority of binaries are small than 200KB, ignoring symlinks, and the outliers are databases, compiler and few other very large applications.