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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by statictype on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:29AM (#13653159)
What went wrong that we end up with this?

Shifting of priorities.

I remember when people used to complain that Delphi executables were 'bloated' and large - 200KB was the minimum size?

At that time the complaints didn't seem absurd when we were connecting via 36k dialups.

Admittedly we have probably swung too much in the other direction.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by jmiserez on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:02PM (#13653940)
The apps on my phone easily reach 100MiB each, how is that the other direction?
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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by debacle on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:18PM (#13654084)
He's saying the focus switched from how small your package can be to not caring about install size.
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