CC_333
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I totally agree. Three's minimal reasons why a newer program or OS should take up 10x the disk space, use 10x the RAM, and still manage to be only about as fast as the same thing 10 years ago.I will probably get flamed for this, but honestly in my opinion modern websites being this way are the result of "bad programming" and dependency-hell. There was a good video I watched on youtube the other day about that very topic, about how we need faster computers to run slower software at the same speed. I think the link came from here even.
It actually amazes me that computers today with modern software really dont seem any faster than old computers I use with period correct software. Now granted old software systems dont have the same features modern ones do, plus trendy changes (UI), etc.. However the magnitude of the change doesnt warrant the "bloat" of the change. But I digress.
According to reason, modern computers should be so much faster that there's absolutely no comparison. Instead, a new computer running modern versions of everything (say, my 2012 MBP, which itself isn't the newest thing out there) manages to feel about the same as, say, my PowerBook G4 A1106 running at 1.6 GHz with 2 GB RAM (which is a lot for a G4).
There are things that are legitimately faster, of course, but the concept of efficient coding (especially for web sites) seems to have gone by the wayside. If people coded efficiently, we probably wouldn't need 15+ GB for a basic OS install (of course, I came of age in the late 90s and early 2000s, at a time when 2-4 GB for the basic OS (no programs) was considered excessive (for instance, an average install of Windows 98 SE or 2000 is only about 250 MB - 400 MB or 600 MB - 1 GB, respectively; XP RTM approached the 2 GB mark with functionality similar to 2000, and people were complaining that it was bloated); nowadays, that's considered ridiculously tiny).
Larger sizes are inevitable when new features are implemented, but there's no reason for it to mushroom out of control like it has been (well, to be fair, for OSes, disk space requirements have remained relatively constant with ~10-15 GB since OS X Snow Leopard, and 15-20 GB since Windows Vista.
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