On Friday 02 March 2007 22:31, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 02 March 2007 19:38, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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The bottom line is that unless you really know all the pertinent technical details, this kind of criticism is without any genuine basis.
The 4 MB is big, you can put BIOS and video BIOS, or Linux kernel in it and it will give you some space left. Compare complexity of whole computer to one adapter, and see why I'm asking "What makes the rest?". Your reply is addressing only one side of the problem. The rest of answer is R&D tools, designed to have solution fast, not optimized.
The question remains: So what? Your objection is arbitrary and without intrisic foundation. You compare the size of one program to another one chosen arbitrarily. Nothing is harmed by this program's on-disk size and reductions in space or run time all require programmer and testing effort. Software is produced within an economy. If this were a real problem, then there'd be value in solving it. Presumably the market is dealing with this and similar matters and has produced approximate optimums for these things. That is, it does so unless you think there are siginificant externalities surrounding the making of these decisions. I don't.
-- Regards, Rajko.
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