Billy Brown writes:
> On a tangential note, you seem to think that large programs are inherently
> bad in some sense. Why? A high-quality program is one that does the things
> I want it to do in a simple and cost effective manner. As long as you have
> that, who cares if the program is 5 KB or 5 MB? Program size only becomes
Code bloat tends to thrash cache, and thus affect how much cycles the other jobs get.
> important if the software is so big that it actually affects its
> performance, or takes up a meaningfull fraction of my hard drive, or in some
> other way limits my ability to use it.