The Cray was operating on MUCH tighter code, though.
“The Cray was operating on MUCH tighter code, though.”
No shiite - if one ever gets a chance to see the code behind any windowing GUI, it will gob-smack you. ‘Bloated’ and inefficient only begins to describe it. The linux GUIs are far more efficient but still execute billions of lines of code just to open a window. We have come a long ways from packing multiple flags into a single byte just to save some memory.
I was just thinking about coding inefficiency last night. No one seems to care anymore because more memory and processing power is always right around the corner. I think it should still matter.
Because it HAD TO!
Because of cheap memory, code today is comparably inefficient and bloated.
Because it CAN BE!