Size and Memory Optimizations

Discussions debate the value of small optimizations for reducing memory usage, binary size, disk space, and bandwidth, weighing marginal savings against added complexity and overhead.

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Sample Comments

candiddevmike Nov 3, 2022 View on HN

You're talking about saving _at most_ 200MBish. That's a lot of work to maintain for little gain...

seanw444 Nov 25, 2021 View on HN

At least they're saving on memory, to be fair.

crdoconnor Aug 11, 2016 View on HN

That's a lot of extra character overhead for not very much gain.

dlan1000 Aug 30, 2011 View on HN

Sure the relative lost efficiency from that extra 20kb may be

bobblywobbles Nov 24, 2018 View on HN

The savings is marginal, but if you are able to set it up once and forget it, why not take advantage of a few % reduction in page size?

jstanley Jul 27, 2017 View on HN

The cost per byte would go down but the number of bytes would go up.

bobblywobbles Nov 24, 2018 View on HN

The savings is marginal, but why not configure your solution to save extra bytes then forget it is even there?

gcheong Nov 11, 2009 View on HN

Were they trying to save memory?

willis936 May 27, 2022 View on HN

Not much compute and memory to be saved. You can save on storage, but who cares about that?

loyukfai Nov 30, 2022 View on HN

Sounds like a lot of space wasted?