In article <878u35tldj.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
wrote:
> 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*
Printer driver installers are extremely bad. For some idiotic reason
some printer makers think it's a clever idea to pointlessly put a load
of separate drivers all in the same massive download. :-\
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