On Friday 02 March 2007 19:38, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 02 March 2007 17:19, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 02 March 2007 18:13, Randall R Schulz wrote: ...
I usually consider that a glib criticism that rarely comes from programmers who, much as they want to write tight code, must balance the requirement for producing correct code with the desire for efficient code all in the face of stringent, often unrealistic, scheduling constraints.
I can agree, but the bloat is everywhere and it is brought to the extremes. .... I'll better formulate above sentence as "the bloat is everywhere to find and sometimes it is brought to the extremes."
My last "wondering why" was with HP laptop. It has software switch to turn wireless transmitter on and off. I can imagine that the most important function of some 4 MB large progam is to write a byte to certain I/O address on the chip. It should be quite short. What makes the rest? ..... 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. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org