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FWIW i have a feeling (and it is just a feeling, not something i can confirm) that the entirety of Windows 95 was simpler than Firefox or Chrome today :-P.
by badsectoracula 1y ago
FWIW i have a feeling (and it is just a feeling, not something i can confirm) that the entirety of Windows 95 was simpler than Firefox or Chrome today :-P.
- lblume 1y agoThis is very likely true. By LOC: Windows 95 is estimated to have 10-15 million LOC, Chrome 30-40 million. By binary size: Windows 95 took about 50 MB, Chrome 200-300 MB. By architecture design: the codebase of Windows 95 is fairly shallow and monolithic, while Chrome is very modular (think V8, Blink, WASM, sandboxes...) and uses other dependencies.