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As an embedded dev who often fits his software down into 64KB, it always suprises me when a simple app takes 1-200MB. Functionality wise so many of these apps
by ChrisRR 4y ago
As an embedded dev who often fits his software down into 64KB, it always suprises me when a simple app takes 1-200MB.
Functionality wise so many of these apps could've been achieved on Windows 3.1, and yet they're 3-4 orders of magnitude larger
- db48x 4y agoI frequently hear statements like that, but I doubt that it is literally true. Just the localization files in this app are easily a third of its size, and back in the Windows 3.1 era nobody could afford to casually install 40 megabytes of strings for languages they could not read. My entire hard drive held just 40 megabytes back then! (Also, Unicode didn’t quite exist yet.) Incidentally, the TreeMaps provided in this article are really amazing. If every scientific paper provided this level of access to their data, we would be a lot better off.
- ChrisRR 4y agoI'm surprised that any app would need 40MB of text. War and Peace is only 3.2MB