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Asking too much?
« on: July 29, 2006, 07:06:43 AM »
Just once I'd like to see a new version of an operating system come out that is actually smaller than the previous version... Is this asking too much or am I the only one left who thinks BETTER_CODE trumps MORE_CODE?
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Re: Asking too much?
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2006, 07:27:55 AM »
BETTER_CODE is deprecated.
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Re: Asking too much?
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2006, 09:46:22 AM »
It depends. New features means bigger files. There is no way around it. Now, for simple bug fixes and optimizations there should be smaller files. We have some examples for both cases in 3.1 -> 3.5/3.9. Iirc, there are some optimization exceptions in which the newer file is slightly larger by a few bytes.
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Re: Asking too much?
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2006, 11:52:32 AM »
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Just once I'd like to see a new version of an operating system come out that is actually smaller than the previous version... Is this asking too much or am I the only one left who thinks BETTER_CODE trumps MORE_CODE?

There's easy solution to your problem: Write your own OS.
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Re: Asking too much?
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2006, 01:20:47 PM »
easy???
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Re: Asking too much?
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2006, 01:45:26 PM »
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Just once I'd like to see a new version of an operating system come out that is actually smaller than the previous version...


Why? Everything in the world is getting *bigger*:

RAM, harddisks, monitors, optical media are getting larger, McDonald meals are being supersized while people are getting bigger, boobs and d*cks are being enlarged...

...so why should the OS make an exception?  :-P
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Re: Asking too much?
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2006, 01:26:03 AM »
If this sort of thing happened, with an OS becoming smaller (and more efficient presumably) then the whole hardware upgrade cycle could be broken! Hardware companies would go out of business, jobs would be lost, the tech sector in general would collapse. Honest.
Therefore software bloat is essential for the good of the world.  ;-)
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Re: Asking too much?
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2006, 01:48:53 AM »
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RAM, harddisks, monitors, optical media are getting larger, McDonald meals are being supersized while people are getting bigger, boobs and d*cks are being enlarged...


I had a chuckle on this one!!!

Yes it should be a no brainer that in 2006 you will have bloated OS's and Apps with lots of eye candy that, to be usable, need to run on ultra fast machines...  The days of simple GUI's are over people... (Amiga DOS, Atari TOS/GEM, MS Windows 3.1) lol
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