On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Mark Crispin wrote: > > > I'm not the Pilot maintainer, but is 460,936 bytes really worth worrying > > about in this day and age? Assuming US $1/GB (which is probably high these > > days), we are talking about $0.0004 in disk cost. That doesn't seem to be > > worth it. > > Could I get the opinion of the Pilot maintainer? It would be nice to know at > least why it's so much bigger. If they're good reasons, then I'll feel less > bad closing the bug as wontfix. (-: > > Some quick math shows that if there are 100,000 machines with the pilot binary > it costs them a total of $46 at US$1/GB. I guess that isn't all that much.
Disk isnt everything, RAM is more precious. Bloat is in any case a very annoying misfeature of current software in general. When I buy disk and RAM, I buy them for _me_ to use, not for the sloppy software developers. -- kolla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
