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Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 5 months ago (39 children)

On another forum, I was complaining about how Microsoft was planning to remove WordPad from Win11. I was advised that installing OpenOffice or LibreOffice was an appropriate replacement. I replied that WordPad was only 3 megs large, as opposed to the recommended replacements, which are decidedly larger.

I guess not everybody appreciates tight code, but I surely do. Things like this are amazingly impressive.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (24 children)

I don't particularly care about code size as a user or as a programmer.

Hard drive space is the cheapest thing you've got on a computer.

You could always run gentoo and use -Os ... that can make things a lot smaller but also slower.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

What was it again, 1 critical bug every 1000 loc?

That's why, code as much as needed but as less as possible.

Of course not measured in KB, because readable code takes a bit more space than clever hacks.