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Fallacies that advocate software bloat (Miscellaneous)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 29.12.2025, 13:01

> > Breaking up the source into smaller "modules" doesn't actually decrease
> the
> > bloat -- it just hides it.
>
> I thought joining all of the modules into one single source file would
> increase the amount of memory required to compile the program, versus
> compiling a bunch of little objects and linking them together.
The debugger's main source (files not in source/eld/ or source/help/) is actually assembled as a single stream of source text, using text %include directives from debug.asm to load everything. The advantage is that you can do things with the multi-section format not supported by an assembler + OMF linker combination. The disadvantage is it can take as long as 30s and as much as 128 MiB to assemble the entire image.

> Also, smaller modules would be easier to grasp in the biological memory of
> the software maintainer. I guess that would be "hiding" the complexity,
> kind of like OOP design.
Indeed, this is why I split the source text into many files.

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