Want to talk about real bloat? Try https://prino.neocities.org/sblog/2022-03-31-bloatware.html
Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org The hitchhiking grandfather <https://prino.neocities.org/index.html> Some REXX code for use on z/OS <https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html> On Fri, 22 Aug 2025, 07:22 Leonard D Woren, <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Edwards wrote on 8/18/2025 5:42 PM: > >>> It is funny that some people even complain about me using > >>> more than 16 MiB of combined OS, code and data for "my" > >>> (gcc 3.2.3) program > > I am not able to maintain TAPEMAP any more, so I don't know about > current versions, but for many many years code+data+32K_buffer fit in > a 60KB region on MVT. > > > Writing and maintaining code requires actual work by a skilled engineer, > > so there is a limit to how big it can be. > > What if you're using one of those bloatware languages that I > previously dissed? How big is the executable for "hello world" in > various languages? Did you know that saving an M$Word file with > contents of only "hello world" is 24K? (At least it was in the > mid-90s when I tried it.) > > > /Leonard > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
