scott wrote:
> Look, nobody in the world apart from you cares if Word uses up 10MB or 
> 6MB of RAM, Microsoft are not going to employ 50 people for a few months 
> to go through and optimise for RAM usage just to make you feel better.  

On the other hand, they *do* optimize disk usage. Ever look at the 
full-blown "advanced" tab on the installer? There's probably 50 
different independent packages you can decide to install or not.

>> I mean, 20 *years* ago computers could do that instanteneously with a 
>> fraction of the RAM and CPU power. Why are we not coding like that any 
>> more??
> 
> Because we (well, most of us) have better computers than we did 20 years 
> ago?

And 50 years ago, people were hand-compiling machine code, punching it 
on tape, and watching the results by actually looking at the bits in 
memory as they glowed on the screen.  So? :-)

I'm still surprised I can get a shaded textured 3D scene with shadows 
calculated refreshed faster than my monitor sync rate, but PowerPoint 
can't smoothly scroll text onto the screen without tearing it. :-?

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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