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In article <30A76BCA.1727@winternet.com>,
Sam Foit  <sfoit@winternet.com> wrote:
>Andy J Partridge wrote:
>>         I still can't fathom why my Winword95 directory needs to be
>>         19 megs, and why I need a DX4 to run it at an acceptable
>>         speed.....
>
>It gets worse.  My machine at work has 32 megs RAM in order to
>minimize disk thrashing during compile times (or that's what they
>told me when I got the machine - I didn't argue!).  Since the weather 
>is starting to get bad here in Minnesota, I thought it would be 
>nice to work at home a few days a week, so I took 16 megs RAM to 
>put in my home machine.  The drop from 32 megs to 16 megs RAM here
>at work was a NOTICEABLE difference just doing standard things in 
>Windows 95, like using my mail reader with no other windows open!
>
>Now I am an advocate of Windows 95, don't get me wrong, but what
>the HELL is going on that is using more than 16 megs RAM to avoid
>disk swapping?

It's easy to blame it on Lazy coding, and this is at least partly true,
but most of the problem is because of how programs are written these
days. Mostly in C++ or C, and in groups of hundreds of people, you can't
optimize your code the same way you can doing assembly in 64k of memory,
because it would take forever, the task would be unbelievabley difficult.
So you have to rely on the Compiler to do the optimizing for you, something
which is still not a great process. 

andy K.