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- From: mikew@net-link.net (Mike Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Web browsers ?
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 22:52:32 GMT
- Organization: DC Productions
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- In article <4hqjd2$73q@nyheter.chalmers.se> d1joe@dtek.chalmers.se (Jonas Ekstr|m) writes:
- > sagge@ts.umu.se (Mattias Sandgren) writes:
- >
- > [snip]
- >
- > >Buy a 540+ MB harddrive and at
- > >least an 8 MB SIMM and you won't have any problems with it.
- > >They're dirt cheap these days. The days when 512KB chip and
- > >floppies were awesome are over..
- >
- > First, let me say that I'm using MUI. Thanks to it I can use
- > Mosaic and IBrowse and for that I'm happy.
- >
- > However, the reasoning above sounds a lot like Microsoft to me. Why
- > does everything have to be so bloated? I think that a program that
- > uses less resources always has an edge, more is left for all the other
- > stuff you want to run. And this is true no matter how much memory
- > or how fast a machine you have.
-
- True to an extent. But there comes a time, when you have to actually release
- the instead of trying to streamline it some more or else somebody else will
- release a program at the same level or worse than yours. People will buy it
- rather than yours because it's available and yours isn't. With todays
- faster machines, there isn't much incentive to trim the code.
-
- Don't get my wrong, I hate Microsoft coding practices (well, technically
- the results of Microsoft's coding practices) as much as anybody, but the sad
- fact is that it works. There's no point in spending lots of man-hours trying
- to improve the performance of a program by 1% or less. Even if the amount of
- improvement you'd get is more than that, the general public (who are the ones
- who decide whether it sells or not) probably won't notice. If they don't care,
- the software producers won't care either.
-
- Those of us who do worry about efficiency in programming seem to be a minority.
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