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sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago

Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had

www.windowslatest.com

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Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had

www.windowslatest.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago
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Dave Plummer rebuilt Notepad in 2.5KB using only what Windows already ships, exposing how bloated Windows 11's own Notepad has become.
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    22 hours ago

    Sure. I wasn’t thinking of something like .kkreiger. I assumed that a small simple text editor would use a similarly small amount of memory. Shocked it ballooned so big. Sorry can’t read the article at the moment.

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      Simply building without Crinkler compression changes the file size to 11 kiB and RAM usage to 1.7 MB. That’s almost double what Microsoft’s old Notepad (at a file size of 250-350 kiB, including an uncompressed multi-size RGBA icon of around 100 kiB and localization) uses but not bad, and probably the version most people will prefer for practical use.

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      It does some of the tricks that .kkreiger uses, including compressing the binary.

      And at least according to a few reports, it uses 500MB of ram:

      https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/TinyRetroPad/issues/21

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      .kkrieger

      Oh my god thanks for these memories

      demoscene & 64K intro

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