Harry Potter wrote on 30. January 2016:   
   >   
   > On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 4:05:39 PM UTC-5, Your Name wrote:   
   >> Yep, the good ol' days of programming, when you had a whopping 1K of   
   >> RAM to play with, so had to program efficiently ... unlike these days   
   >> of lazy, over-bloated, inefficient code.  :-(   
   >>   
   >> Write the "Hellow World" program on a VIC 20 BASIC and it takes up a   
   >> few bytes. Write it on a modern computer in something RealBASIC, build   
   >> the application, and it takes up a megabyte or more, thanks mostly to   
   >> all the pointlessly included libraries that aren't even needed.   
   >   
   > I agree totally!  Optimize a modern game for speed by 30%, and you will   
   > be able to do 30% more special effects on a certain computer or the   
   > same on a 30% slower computer, so optimizing can *still* help.  :) Just   
   > my opinion.   
      
   Back in the days I used Windows (until 2001) I already noticed that for   
   example the installation of a graphic card driver was pure bloat. I seem   
   to recall the package had some 200 MB already.   
      
   I let it extract but not complete (asked to accept the EULA at that   
   point) and looked into the %TEMP% directory where it unpacked   
   itself. Copied some .ini, .inf, .ocx, .drv and a few other files   
   elsewhere, and aborted the installation (which cleaned itself up). Then   
   just right clicked the .inf file and it would install just the driver which   
   worked after a reboot. And none of the flash animation bloat what would   
   had otherwise come with it to waste disk space.   
      
   I would assume today it's even worse. You probably don't get a GPU driver   
   smaller than 1GB? *g*   
   --   
   Andreas   
      
   I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often   
   as I have to reboot my computer.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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