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This took 20 minutes to load 1 megabyte.

"A 2 megabyte JS file is likely prohibitively large." Tell that to Gmail.

In the 1970s when a megabyte cost many thousands of dollars, there was much more reason to use binary formats than there is now. If it made sense then, it makes much more sense now.

It also has a megabyte of flash and 192K of RAM. It also has a USB Phy built right in so you can just wire it up to a USB connector. Its $8 in 1K quantities in that package.

1 megabyte = 8388608 bits > 8093700 bits So it appears that we at least actually have enough room to store the result! Now of course the interesting bit is doing the sorting as the numbers stream in.

If you measure your memory in multiples of megabyte, you need not apply. Given that, the performance situation on mobile is rather appalling.

- The generated JavaScript will be huge, and I mean huge, mine is like 460k per file and I'm not using polymer, when I used polymer the generated JavaScript was over one megabyte, just insane in the cloud. 3.

It's also trivial to DOS - just send tons of multi-megabyte messages to nonexistent receivers. The messages hang around in the block chain forever and the entire system dies.

Sending 10 bytes may take much less energy, but Bluetooth's faster data rates may allow it to win on a 10 megabyte transfer. It's interesting, but I really want to know more before considering the product.

Maybe I'm missing the joke, but Emacs was famous for bringing multi-megabyte machines to their knees and garbage collecting for minutes. The joke was that emacs stood for "eight megabytes and constantly swapping".

Reducing a half-megabyte image is hardly "fine tuning", especially on a basic information page. 2.

Js is ugly, but it doesn't seem that much more ugly than adding a new multi-megabyte dependency to every browser. I suppose an interesting question would be how hard would it have been to standardise on the PNaCl bytecode format and use that as the input to ${FOO}monkey

> Facebook is already working on techniques to reduce the average amount of data used by its Android mobile app from the current 12 megabytes a day to 1 megabyte without users noticing. That seems like more of an incentive on carriers to make Facebook quota free as much as anything else...

I guess it probably saved them ~5k disk space in text, ~50k for an image and all of half a megabyte a month in hosting costs. --edit-- this is not to say that my friend is as important as retaining the history of BBS and other pre-internet computer culture BUT it was the day I realised that something weird and tragic was afoot inside wiki.

Not to mention every web developer thinks the pinnacle of web design involves a megabyte of jquery or whatever is fashionable these days, reinventing parts of the browser's functionality like fading content in instead of just letting me scroll the fucking page. I wish javascript would just die already.