Gary Hedlin wrote:
> Obviously you havent taken any programming classes. The more code you have,
> the more resources you take up. And even if you have code to call up
> special instruction sets on a processor, youre still taking resources to
> enable them.
I do it for a living. I have a 4-year degree in Computer Science.
> Look at all the companies still using command line interfaces on UNIX
> systems, they're stiill using them because command line is still the least
> resource hogging application. Youre not driving a GUI interface....which
> uses up a massive ammout of resources to interface the graphical part to the
> actual commands...
The fact that a GUI uses more resources than a CLI has nothing to do
with the amount of code and everything to do with the amount of work
being done. I have had very resource-intensive non-GUI programs and
very small GUI programs.
> It's as simple as that
Hardly. It's anything but a "simple" issue. There are countless
factors at work. Look, if you want to try continuing this, take it to
the OT list.
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