since any given day here there will be a majority unconcerned or actually defending code bloat, well now, this uniinteresting topic is just chickens-coming-home-to-roost. All the benefits of Moore's law are not gone, today's prices reflect a very large N of an exponential decline of cost per bit; these price increases are linear, not even a 2nd order polynomial, so why all the angst? go to your room and clean up your code.