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Re:Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practi... by userbinator on Sunday August 28, 2016 @06:01PM (#12378748)
If they didn't have so much code (and data) to load in the first place, a lot of it probably unnecessary, applications would certainly load much faster.
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Re:Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practi... by oldmanjay on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:51AM (#12380075)
People who aren't performance obsessed programmers enjoy detailed graphical interfaces, and those tend to require lumps of code and data. It's fine to decry it I guess, but it won't be changing any time soon.
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Re:Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practi... by andrepd on Monday August 29, 2016 @10:50AM (#12382195)
The point is that you can have those without the fluff and layers of inefficiency that modern programming introduces.
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