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Posted by Jim Higgins on 10/06/62 11:53
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:04:14 -0400, NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
>DarkStar wrote:
>> First Thanks to all who replied.
>>
>> Second: Wow this program seems to do anything you might want with tags.
>>
>> There is only one thing that bothers me and it has to do
>> with the size of this program. Like all Windows stuff
>> the executables seem to be 10X larger then necessary
>> to get the job done. It is not just this program
>> but most others too in all different kinds of utilities.
>>
>> When you make a very large program to handle
>> a relatively simple idea it serves to make me wonder
>> about all the things that could be going on
>> that might be other then what you want.
>> I can only hope the size is related to
>> multimedia data and not executable codes.
>> Once you run a program it can do anything at all
>> to your machine that the programmers want it too
>> regardless of what you the user wants.
>> It could create artificial bad sectors on your hard drive and hide programs
>> like a trojan horse to be activated at the descretion
>> of unknown factors. But then this is just paranoia on my part.
>> Being the person I am I will try it out just the same.
>>
>> Now i need another Utility.
>> A Utility that will check the hard drive
>> for bad sectors and will write obliterating
>> data to those bad sectors regardless of whether
>> or not any such sectors can take data.
>>
>> Thanx to all who replied;
>> gmvoeth
>
>Well, some people write needlessly verbose code or don't arrange it very
>well. For instance if there's a section of code that gets run a dozen
>times, then you'd want to write it as a function or a library and call
>it a dozen times, rather than actually having the code written a dozen
>times.
>
>Another thing is, a lot of small programs are small because they have
>been compressed. Some devs don't know how to compress programs or don't
>bother doing so.
I don't think completely unrolling all loops could possibly account
for the bloat seen in most programs. I think the authors must leave
in all the debugging info as well as embed the whole family photo
album in TIF format.
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