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[Andreas Schneider]

Am 2020-05-07 15:26, schrieb Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal:
> The amount of redundant information being sent around is ridiculous.
> Mainly, the spec gives no way for the client to cache results and
> refer to them later in various requests. We're literally sending
> around mega bytes of data for no reason whatsoever, except lazy
> programmers I guess.
>
> Computers just keep getting slower and slower sometimes it feels...

That's the normal approach now. Why should you optimize anything if
you can simply buy better hardware? So I end up with a machine ten
times as fast as a few years ago and still cannot run much more in
parallel than back then, because even calendar apps are now written
with a full browser stack (looking at electron here).

As someone who still is happy when a GUI is a statically compiled
app that is < 10MB and doesn't take more than that as memory when
starting up, I am disgusted by the current "state of the art"
development. It's no longer an art.

(I am even more pissed off about this on my smartphone. Why does
a messenger app have to be 100 MB in size?! We had whole operating
systems in just 1% of that size. Even a full oracle database is
just around 30 MB if you strip away the java based management
console stuff ... and that thing is a feature monster for data
management.)

</rant>

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Andreas