"Windows 95 was 30 MB" is such an ignorant, obnoxious, trite take. a triple buffered framebuffer (which you want for smooth scrolling) for my 4K display is 70 MB in *pixels alone*. Obviously a complete webpage with precomposed textures would take more.https://twitter.com/julienPauli/status/1042113172143067138 …
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Replying to @whitequark
Well, I was talking about on-screen keyboard, it doesn’t need smooth scrolling, and it requires 150 Mb _on disk_. I can, too, name things that weight 70 Mb, what does it have to do with anything?
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I guess this was confusingly phrased, so let's try again. memory footprint of a modern webpage on the order of 100 MB is OK because that's how browsers achieve low input latency. wire footprint of same on the order of 10 MB of JS is OK because the offline applications they…
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Replying to @whitequark @nikitonsky
replace were often much larger, even if you add the size of the browser itself. flash footprint of a modern Android app on the order of 100 MB isn't OK, but this is a problem inherent to the way Android evolved as an open platform and not computing in general.
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you're complaining about bloat in general, but there's no such thing. some of it only appears to be bloat, and some of it has to be dissected on a case by case basis to get any useful insight. classifying programs by bloat is like classifying cats by number of toes.
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