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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] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sometimes a program is slow to start up because it's so boated that just loading it from the disk takes multiple seconds. Wasting a few kB doesn't hurt anything, but if you're doing it thousands of times in one program, your users are gonna have a bad time.

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