Originally posted by BlackStar
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UPX claims an average compression level ratio of 0.307:1 (source). Assuming this holds for utorrent, the uncompressed executable would be ~919KB
- still smaller than the *bootstrap* installer of ktorrent, which doesn't even contain Qt.
Here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman
"Example
Straw man arguments often arise in public debates even when less flawed arguments could be found to support the same position.
* (Hypothetical) prohibition debate:
Person A: We should liberalize the laws on beer.
Person B: No, any society with unrestricted access to intoxicants loses its work ethic and goes only for immediate gratification.
The proposal was to relax laws on beer. Person B has exaggerated this to a position harder to defend, i.e., "unrestricted access to intoxicants".[1]"
Please do not misrepresent me in future.
The claim that this was a publicity stunt in favour of C# is ridiculous and shows that you haven't even read the blog posts. Also note that C++ comes on top in the end and Rico profiles the code and shows exactly *why* and *how* this happens.
This is a very informative post if you wish to learn how .Net affects application performance, startup times and memory consumption. I'd suggest reading the posts even though they are written by Microsoft employees - if nothing else, they will give you ammunition to shoot down claims in favor of .Net.
This is a very informative post if you wish to learn how .Net affects application performance, startup times and memory consumption. I'd suggest reading the posts even though they are written by Microsoft employees - if nothing else, they will give you ammunition to shoot down claims in favor of .Net.
A couple of pages back I said this very thing: on your *native* platform the costs are amortized and become negligible. This is why utorrent outperforms ktorrent on win32 (in memory/disk/startup). This is why ktorrent needs only 6.8MB memory to run on a KDE desktop.
A) It was not noticably any slower than utorrent on Linux or Windows on my 600mhz pc in the other room (which is not the case for monsoon for example) and
B) It did compared to any .net or java application that filled the same role, i'm still waiting for an example from you that disputes this (hint: there are none to show, they dont exist)
What about Python desktop apps, do they perform horribly too? In other words, is your argument purely political or is there some substance hidden somewhere in it?
Transmission, compizconfig-manager, ati tray tools, paint .net, sharpdevelop are examples of managed applications that run great on my non-SSD machines.
Firefox and Evolution are examples of native applications that run awfully on both my non-SSD *and* my SSD machines.
Your claim that managed applications must always run worse than native applications is laughable.
Stop right there, Miguel no longer holds any executive power over Gnome. He is a mere contributor like any other.
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