Lazycoder

tight code and more RAM

So that’s what RAM’s used for…

and now you see why programming skills have eroded over the years. Why bother to write tight code when you can just ADD MORE RAM! tah-dah. If it doesn’t run well on the smaller machine, just tell the client to get a bigger/faster/better/MORE machine.

Microsoft application code is the biggest victim of code bloat, but it’s starting to show it’s ugly head in development tools too apparently. Writing tighter code won’t change the size of your program very much, but in some cases it will change the amount of horsepower you need to run your application. You have to be careful to avoid the trap of over-optimizing though.

PS This shouldn’t be taken as an indictment of Jason or anyones programming skills with the .NET Framework or any other framework or language, with the exception of C++ and other lower level languages, as there are some parts of it that are beyond our control. But there are some things you can do.If you choose to pay the “framework tax” you have to put up with some performance hits.