What is software bloat? Throughout my life, and the decades before, I have heard over and over again about the advances in computer hardware. I have studied how computers execute instructions, designed simple ones in RTL, and seen them get faster over time, mostly due to making use of the advances in semiconductor nodes. However, software has, on average, remained roughly the same speed and proportional memory usage throughout my lifetime, as seen in Wirth’s Law.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The way I try to make apps snappy is to choose time over space 90% of the time. Yes, I have had php processes that hit 1GB but I’d rather it gets done fast

    • nkochavi@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      You’re making a conscious trade off, which is better than most of the heavy apps out there, because they are slow and heavy. It would be interesting to document your decision making in some kind of blog post, especially if there is real hard data behind the decisions. That’s where the engineering lies.

      • Gonzako@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        I’ll be honest as a 1 man operation, my flowchart is fairly simple:

        -Can psql do this? Then make the statement to do it

        -Gotta do it on code? Make sure you have distinct read – process – save chunks so you can see whats slowing you down and minimize cache misses.