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Originally Posted by Ankh
 With the price of hardware these days, maybe it is time to re-evaluate static linking. Ugly as hell, but bulletproof solution for packaging self-contained binaries.
Back to the size of flash on our readers, I immediately bought SD card to go with my 505. A few weeks later, the conclusion was that the number of books is bigger concern than their size. At least it is for me, with the current software. |
While I didn't start programming at the very start of the 'home computer era,' I did start moderately early.
I remember writing self-modifying code to save a few bytes that I could then allocate to needed working buffers within limited - and fixed - memory constraints.
The current attitude (which has been around for well over a decade) of 'memory is cheap' strikes me as slightly offensive and more specifically as
lazy.
Yes. You
can just go out and buy a bigger flash card, but that doesn't mean that you
should.
-JPB