Yes, RAM was cheap. Yes, RAM is fast. Yes, assets are bigger because 4K. But if you load a 1MB executable and a 100MB executable into RAM, one will be faster and it doesn’t take a computer scientist to tell you which one.
I hesitate to call it lazy programming because it’s really just business pushing for the wrong results. The old chestnut of fast/good/cheap.
Yes, RAM was cheap. Yes, RAM is fast. Yes, assets are bigger because 4K. But if you load a 1MB executable and a 100MB executable into RAM, one will be faster and it doesn’t take a computer scientist to tell you which one.
I hesitate to call it lazy programming because it’s really just business pushing for the wrong results. The old chestnut of fast/good/cheap.
The size tells me nothing. Smaller isn’t necessarily better, even if it is more efficient. Which smaller doesn’t mean either.