It's one of them. In the windows world, there are now several. There's NTFS which uses like 8kb of hard drive space for a 1 byte text file. There's also the registry, which grows and grows, slowing down boot times. More recently, there's now the .NET threat that has emerged. MS is trying to bully everyone into using their .NET framework. Soon, there won't be any such thing as a stand-alone Windows executable anymore. The DLL hell will be gone, replaced by interpreted bytecode "exes" using a runtime which is bigger than many operating systems throughout history. Things aren't going well ;)
On Jul 23, 9:16 am, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > Is unicode really your challenge in shrinking your memory footprint? > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jul 23, 7:21 am, [email protected] wrote: > > > Must admit this is an unusual phobia. An Ansi only OS is a dying legacy. > > > Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry > > > > Just a preference. > > > I come from the DOS/3.1/95/98 world. They are all "dying". In fact, > > they're dead. They're also efficient and small. Unicode is bloat. It > > slows down string handling and wastes memory, often times in > > situations where the end user never uses anything but English anyway. > > -- > > Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
