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It took about 12 floppy disks. :) Java is about four times that size (for a minimal distribution) nowadays.
by dkersten 15y ago
It took about 12 floppy disks. :)
Java is about four times that size (for a minimal distribution) nowadays.
- jarek 15y agoOnly because we've decided as a profession that optimizing for binary size is low priority when compared to speed of development, maintainability, and framework's features, among others.
- dkersten 15y agoSure and thats usually a reasonable thing to do these days when storage space and bandwidth are pretty cheap. It was really just an observation that 12 floppy disks isn't really very much. I guess random observations are downvotable offenses on HN, but thats ok too.
- gaius 15y agoNah, no-one made that decision. We just all got lazy.
- jarek 15y agoWe made the decision collectively. By being lazy, in a good way.