[Jacques]

So agree with you Raion, it's everywhere. The CAD software I use (ArchiCAD) was 360mb for v6, blazed along on a 450Mhz G4 with 256Mb of ram and only needed a 8Mb OpenGL gfx card. v20 clocks in around 3.5Gb....and no, we don't have 10x the library parts or any such extravagance, you do need a 4Ghz+ proc with at least 16Gb of ram to use it productively. What's changed, well a lot of the modules (ArchiCAD uses modules, a bit like linked libraries), and these have all bloated in size, for no real good reason.

This code bloat sickness seems to be everywhere.