Generally speaking on the substance of the remarks on this thread (as
below; retard et. al) ...
especially ...
> Unfortunately computer programs seem to inflate over time. A typical
> program doubles its size in 2-3 years. I would understand this if a
> tradeoff was made between size and performance but unfortunately many
> programs also perform worse than before.
The blot is called marketing and is the hallmark of a capitalistic,
consumerist, non-green and resource-unsustainable society.
Happy New Year,
Justin Johansson
retard wrote:
Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:25:16 +0100, Chris wrote:
"Nick Sabalausky":
"Ph":
Why a generated file is so huge? [...]
That's not even a third of a megabyte, why does this keep getting
brought up as an issue by so many people?
Execution speed perhaps, since the time elapsed is proportional to the
number of processor instruction executed. This explains why some people
(for certain time critical apps) do not even take the step from C to
C++, and chose to stay 20 year behind "modern" languages.
D presented itself being a high level language suitable for system
programming, so executable sizes must be taken into consideration, imho.
Year after year I see the sizes of overbloated executables to grow with
non-proportional added substance. I am totally shocked when for only to
add a reference to an external library, my program burn the space of an
entire computer of old good days.
I simply can't get used to it, and probably never will for anyone who
used to code in low-level languages, since they know how much a program
size can really be.
What's funny is that more and more computation can be done with a single
instruction because of SSE1-4.2/MMX. Also register sizes grow so
computation does not need to be split into many registers because of
overflow issues. Also CPUs get faster so a tighter algorithm with a bit
slower performance could be used instead.
Unfortunately computer programs seem to inflate over time. A typical
program doubles its size in 2-3 years. I would understand this if a
tradeoff was made between size and performance but unfortunately many
programs also perform worse than before.
There are exceptions such as the linux kernel - IIRC it fit in a 1.4MB
floppy along with a basic set of userspace programs. Nowadays, 15 years
later, my hand-built kernel is about 2.5 .. 3x larger. On the other hand
it supports more hardware now. I used to have drivers for 4x read only
cd, vesa video, sound blaster 16, iomega zip, floppy, and parallel
printer. Nowadays I have 2-3 times as many devices connected to the PC
and most of them are much more advanced - bi-directional printer link,
dvd-rw etc.
