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. 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? -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org