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What's the difference?

• nullindividual 3y ago
  A meaningless term to deride a feature or service you don't like or use.
• bunga-bunga 3y ago
  /s Bloat is intentional and fills Microsoft’s wallet. Optimization drains Microsoft’s wallet.
• JohnFen 3y ago
  "Bloat" includes the addition of intentional, but frivolous, features. An application can be well-optimized but still slow simply because it's doing too much. But I think the reason that most modern software performs badly is because of optimization: we're optimizing to reduce production costs over increasing performance. It's economic in nature. We minimize production costs by using frameworks and other labor-saving tools. The code produced using these tools tends to be poor, but hardware is cheap enough to make up for poorly performing software. It's an intentional decision.