On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, Chen Shapira wrote about "RE: USB modem Linux driver":
> BTW, what's so bad about bloatware? Diskspace is pretty cheap these days.
> And I'd rather have that programmer at hp be working on new features,
> plucking out bugs, or writing neat tools rather than making it 1M smaller.
Personally I'm not bothered by the disk space usage - I'm more bothered
by programs that because of their bloatware (for lack of a better term)
design take forever to run, take a huge amount of memory while running,
and generally behave like elephants, not agile cheetahs.
Star Office is the best example - I like it, and we don't have anything
better (correct me if I'm wrong), but it is a monstrosity. Takes a huge
amount of disk space (250 Megabytes!!), takes forever to run (about a
minute to start up) and uses half of the available memory.
Another horrible bloatware is Netscape 6...
XEmacs (or Emacs) is a half way to being bloatware. Most of the disk-space
it uses is packages that can be loaded when needed on runtime, so it doesn't
have to start slowly or use up tons of memory when it runs. But in reality,
when you use a dozen different packages like I use, startup can be pretty
slow (say, 10 seconds) and this becomes annoying - so annoying that I never
start and stop Emacs: I use "gnuclient" to start new windows on an existing
XEmacs process. With gnuclient, XEmacs is indeed a cheetah and a delight to
work with.
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