Back in the early days when resources were tight my buddy and I were part of the demo scene.
He was an assembly programmer and he won a competition with a 640x480 CGI visual tied to a 16bit soundtrack. It ran for 17 minutes and took up 146k of disk space. No math coprocessor required. The idea of constraints and efficiency went by the wayside once hardware got ahead of software, a lead that has only grown over the years. Python wouldn't exist if the gap between wasn't as huge as it is now. Chris On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:12 AM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > We, at the "Global South", are pretty conscious of band width, processing and > space limitations. That's one of the things that point me to Pharo and > Fossil, because is incredible what you can do with such small packages and > one wonders how much of the computing experience is just dealing with > incidental complexity and huge inefficient packages and workflows, just > because we have resources to spare on them, until incidental complexity bite > us. > > As an example of making big data small, with such self contained environment, > I developed a prototype of the Panama Papers (the biggest leak in the history > of journalism) just in 80 Mb of software and data. You can see more details > at: [1] > > [1] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/panama-papers-1 > > Cheers, > > Offray > > On 9/2/19 17:21, Matt Wilkie wrote: > > No not necessarily a problem, but good information to have. > > I'm in a bandwidth constrained environment. The connection speed is actually > pretty good but there's a limit on consumption amount. With our decent-enough > transfer speed it's very easy to double or more our monthly bill if we go > over quota. (Family of 4 with two teens who don't mind using more than their > share if it inconveniences the other). For each of the last 3 months I've had > to set our router to limit speed to 100kbps and less for the last few days of > the month to make it. We're driving down the highway at 30km/hr instead of a > 100km/hr hoping we don't run out of gas before the next town, and then > coasting down the last hill to make it. ;-) So to me appimage and friends who > bundle complete the entire environment in isolation are solutions that make > problems. > > That said, I know I'm in a very small minority. My intent is to use this > information and look at how the Leo package is bundled. To see if for a > reasonable amount of effort the dependencies can be partitioned without > sacrificing convenience. However even before getting to that, we have to have > convenience, so a smooth install is still my primary interest. > > > Matt > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
