Fast Software, the Best Software

Posted by Andy Brice
Jul 28, 2019 at 01:42 PM

As a professional software developer for over 30 years, it shocks me how bloated a lot of modern software is. I would be ashamed to write bloatware like that. Do these developers know what a profiler is? Maybe their bosses don’t care?

The Hyper Plan executable is about 2 MB. With various third party libraries and the Visual C++ redistributable, it compressed to about 20MB (less on Mac).

I once bought an HP Colour printer and it proceeded to load a staggering amount of software onto my PC. This software was using almost all the CPU. God knows what it was doing. It totally bought the PC its knees and I had to uninstall to make the PC usable. I’ve never bought any HP stuff since.

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Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com