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    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Tim Schattkowsky on Sat Jan 15 19:11:38 2022
    Which bringst me to the point that I simply do not understand the memory usage of certain kinds of applications nowadays.

    Lazy programmers, using 4G programming (mostly just cut&paste). My own programs range from 8 bytes and up, many of them "written" in DEBUG...

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  • From Tim Schattkowsky@2:240/1120.29 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sun Jan 16 14:36:50 2022
    //Hello Wilfred,//

    on *15.01.22* at *16:39:10* You wrote in rea *FTSC_PUBLIC*
    to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"Re: Unix point?"*.

    Hi Tim,

    On 2022-01-15 16:57:32, you wrote to Oliver Deiter:

    You probably mean 2M ! It was never in the G size...

    Which bringst me to the point that I simply do not understand the memory
    usage of certain kinds of applications nowadays. For some things like
    web browsers, it is at least obvious that there is potential to abuse a
    lot of memory. For others, like many simple business applications, I
    dont see any reason why something the would have easily fit a C64
    nowadays instally to GBs on disk and requires GBs to operate.

    Because they use java for instance? That comes with a ton of "needed" libraries...

    Even that seems to be nowadays a drop on the hot stone in the whole picture. Still, how those got that big is also interesting.

    Regards,
    Tim
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  • From Tim Schattkowsky@2:240/1120.29 to Björn Felten on Wed Jan 19 15:05:48 2022
    //Hello Bjoern,//

    on *15.01.2022* at *18:11:38* You wrote in rea *FTSC_PUBLIC*
    to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"Huge programs"*.

    Which bringst me to the point that I simply do not understand the memory
    usage of certain kinds of applications nowadays.

    Lazy programmers, using 4G programming (mostly just cut&paste). My own programs range from 8 bytes and up, many of them "written" in DEBUG...

    Copy/Paste has always been an issue. Today we have worse. My favourite are microservices, where a few hundered lines of code become something that requires a separate container with all attached ressources. Not to mention the coordination problem between the services ...

    Regards,
    Tim
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