Paul Louden wrote:
That means less useful features should be considered critically even if they have small binsize costs, just because they're useful to only an exceptionally small group. They're a dilution of the total "usefulness density."
Let me chime in with my $0.02. I think that the binsize isn't *that* important for the battery life. If a feature adds 10Kbytes to the binary, it means 10Kbytes less buffering memory. That is hardly measurable at all, only a few frames of an MP3 file.
Yes, the binary size would matter if Rockbox would grow out of control, but we all know that won't happen.
I also tend to get the feeling that the binary size card gets played a little too often. Especially when it comes to GUI features, or "eye candy".
Linus
