Me putting a 4 TB 3.5" HDD in my phone
Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water
onion@feddit.de 5 months ago
Harddrives start at 16€/TB, so 500MB would be 0.008€. SSD start at 50€/TB, so it would be 0.025€ or two-and-a-half cents
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
onion@feddit.de 5 months ago
Why are you installing Signal Desktop on your phone?
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
You got me there
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
yes but think about how much money writing 500MB worth of code would cost.
I realize it’s not all code, and some of it is already written, but please, muse me, and do the math for it.
onion@feddit.de 5 months ago
Writing less code costs more money. The programm is large because they slapped some existing stuff together instead of writing everything from scratch
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
there is an inevitable cost to written code though, it simply cannot be computed away. In this case the cost is just a shitty application with an even shittier user experience.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I don’t think people are worried about storing hundreds of Signal instances, this isn’t a photo backup.
The concerns are bloat, optimisation, and memory usage.
Also, HDDs can go from $7.5/TB
captainjaneway@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s the point. The storage is a bad metric. While it might indicate poor performance, it’s not a direct indication of poor performance. The bloat and optimization comes from the usage of Electron. And people use Electron because it’s far easier to make cross-platform deployments for Web and desktop using a framework like Electron. Show me the QT/JavaFX app that mimics Signal and we can compare the cost to develop it. Electron isn’t the best choice for memory usage and reducing bloat, but it’s the best choice for quick development (in my opinion but also proven out by the market share it has)