On Friday 21 November 2008, Trent Piepho wrote: > So yes, hardware keeps getting better. ?But you can't say, "I have twice the > RAM so I can make my software twice as bloated as come out even." Because we > also except to be able to do more with cheaper, lower power hardware. Which wasn't my point at all; neither was even closely related: > > The real counter-argument is that memory isn't *that* tight, especially > > since the hardware capacity is growing. If you're keen on saving a hundred bytes, you could probably get it by removing some needless strings or moving code to init/exit sections ... and in fact, get a lot more than that. Without any loss of functionality.
