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Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 24 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Hard drive space is the cheapest thing you’ve got on a computer.

I hate this "storage is cheap" mentality, it's a cop out for being wasteful without a reason. "Gas is cheap" was common up to the early 1970s, until it wasn't anymore. "Freshwater is cheap", until it isn't anymore.

[–] frezik@midwest.social -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

Are you willing to give up 1080p screens and 16-bit/44.1kHz sampled music? Or how about languages that can't be represented in ASCII, much less Latin-1? Because handling those take up way more space than code.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

You present a false dichotomy. Yes, things like uncompressed audio and HD video take up more storage space, but that does not negate that modern commercial software is very inefficient with how it uses resources. You could improve the efficiency of the system while keeping HD video, it is not a mutually exclusive choice.

For example, booting up Windows and doing nothing takes up 4gb of RAM, while doing the same with a lean Linux installation would take up a quarter of that, despite both operating systems having identical functionality (run web browser, open applications, edit documents, play games, etc).

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does Windows booting take up that much space because of code, or because of data that code is loading?

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

4GB is what Windows idles at for me, after everything has loaded.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

How much of that is cached state based on the percentage of ram available?

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