Timeline for Why are the sizes of programs so large?
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| Oct 31, 2021 at 15:49 | comment | added | Leif Willerts | Yes, it's rather specialist software, but could still be a good example - my installation of Sibelius 6 includes ~50MB per language: UI strings, plugins, templates, examples, and - largest of all - handbook+reference PDFs. No audio or images or binary data of any kind as far as I can tell. Just 50MB of stuff that contains language-specific text, where the entire language-independent remainder is 500MB. | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 18:06 | comment | added | andyb | For each language, the string table might add up to a few extra K bytes. Just the application icons alone typically dwarf the total size of all string content (possible exceptions being applications with embedded dictionaries) | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 5:16 | comment | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | @Bob Right, I was not thinking about games, they seem to be the one big exception to what I wrote. | |
| Sep 27, 2015 at 23:30 | comment | added | Bob | @cmaster Strings, no. But localised video and audio, especially in the context of games? IIRC there was a 60 GB game (GTA V?) where >10 GB was solely localised audio. That's a significant chunk. | |
| Sep 26, 2015 at 1:41 | comment | added | BenjiWiebe | Adding to what @cmaster said, Firefox specifically does not bundle full localisation (and while I'm thinking about it, neither does OpenOffice.) | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 21:30 | comment | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | I may be wrong, but I'm laboring under the illusion that strings are the least part of this problem. True, there is a lot of languages out there, but still the amount of strings a user ever sees is very limited. After all, one of the surest way to fail at your user interface is to include too much text. | |
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 8:32 | history | answered | Eterm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |