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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sometimes a program is slow to start up because it's so boated that just loading it from the disk takes multiple seconds. Wasting a few kB doesn't hurt anything, but if you're doing it thousands of times in one program, your users are gonna have a bad time.