Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:22:12 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> :
On 9/21/23 05:59, bent fender wrote:
Excellent, if we could only force all the mozilla bloat-code to go through their cubicles too (not to mention nvidia and chrome)!
Amen,
I don't know if you ever have a need to move your databases around, but moving to postgres from mysql could not be easier. I was floored. pgloader in one short command line can completely move a MySQL database to postgres at a rate of millions of records per-second. Preserving the complex tables relations, etc.. and even read the database to duplicated across encrypted network connections from a remote host. Every bit a slick as creating a .pdf on the fly with groff/troff!
Between mozilla, nvidia and chrome we could probably save 600M in package sizes and never notice the loss. With pgloader, the savings of 22.5M on a 23M executable was pretty astonishing. I'm sure that worked fine in the past, but there was likely a change to the SBCL library that prevents the same objcopy trick from working with the current version.
I vaguely remember a thing called *crunching* from my Amiga past in another life, maybe on another planet. There was also a companion of that philosophy which I think was called ivestigative-testing (my dad once told me about that what-if thingie). But I'm no guru, I was never a developer, so wtf do I know...