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You maniacs, you actually did it. (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net

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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Software bloat is real.

A modern web page (with no hi-res images) can take >1GB RAM, when '90s web browsers typically took <1MB. Modern Adobe PDF reader takes >200MB, when some of the longest video games I've loved are <=10MB. Heck even a modern indie-made game with tons of gameplay is still sometimes <200MB.

The cause really is just shitty code and corner-cutting. Optimizing anything is rarely regarded as worth it nowadays, even if a small amount of work leads to 10x performance gains.