> Crystal is 1MB in size. Yes, one megabyte.
Is this notable because it's little or because it's a lot?
Zelda III for the SNES was 1MB. Pokemon Red and Blue was 512KB, which is also quite a lot for a Gameboy game.
Is this notable because it's little or because it's a lot?
Zelda III for the SNES was 1MB. Pokemon Red and Blue was 512KB, which is also quite a lot for a Gameboy game.
> Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell, Matt Evans
> The 'ls' binary on the original release of Unix (version 6) was 4920 bytes long. Thirty six years later, 'ls' on Ubuntu is 105776 bytes. Is this the laziness of modern coders? Increasing features? Does 'cat' really now do 313 times more stuff, or is there something else going on?
It depends on the exact proficiency of the programmers involved and the compiler/platform/etc., but it's not unusual to have an order of magnitude difference or more between the same application written in Asm vs. a high-level language like C.
People have tried to rewrite standard *nix utilities in Asm; one example is Asmutils[1][2] which certainly illustrates the "order of magnitude or more" size difference. If you're curious about extreme size optimisation there are many cool examples of that in the demoscene, like 96KB games[3] and all the 4k/64k intros.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmutils