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Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Size on disk doesn't correlate to memory usage or load time. You can get a very small on disk size by compression, or downloading the main executable at runtime.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Sure. I wasn't thinking of something like .kkreiger. I assumed that a small simple text editor would use a similarly small amount of memory. Shocked it ballooned so big. Sorry can't read the article at the moment.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The premise is probably if you can optimize the code to be small, you are probably also optimizing how it runs too. Rather then just bloat up everything

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Once you start optimizing for one aspect, others become less important. In this case, they are doing a few hacks to get to 2.5kb, which do impact runtime performance. A few users report it using 500mb at runtime due to the compression :/

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