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Hopefully this will cause the software and game development industry to optimize their programs as intensly as they did 30 years ago. I assume that upper management types have largely forgotten the value of having a quality product, and that subsequently the time allowed for QA and optimization has shrunk in order to ship the product quicker. The ease of patching has made it worse. Hoping to see some more competent coding in the future.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I like the idea. Maybe some other kinds of software could use some optimization as well. Like people who use Electron and Flatpak for their desktop software and now my instant messenger uses 1GB of RAM and pulls in 1.5GB of dependencies on my SSD 😅

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Flatpak needs a local pool file location so that if 2, 3, or more apps require the same software (same version x.x.3) we can have a single instance of it. I'm pretty sure back in the early 00s if I installed 3 apps and they all had the same dependencies the dependencies would only be installed once for all 3 and accessed by them, could be wrong as I am getting to the "Get off my lawn, you damn kids" stage of life

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Hmmh. I mean all the software I install from my Linux distribution's repository use the same shared libraries. We just get some bloat with the more modern stuff that allows multiple versions of libraries. And I'll regularly get some fat, deprecated GNOME 48 and things like that because some project isn't up to date with their build...