Comment Re:HP Printer Driver Developers Take Note (Score 1) 143
Here I go feeding the trolls...
So just so I can get this right, a printer driver is so complex a feat of engineering it is analogous to a skyscraper? A printer driver takes input data in the form of text, fonts, and images, formatting, and translates it into a format compatible with the printer in question. Entire operating systems have been written in less than 1/10th the size of some of HP's modern shipping print drivers. I never said it has to be 254 bytes, but the current level of bloat is absolutely insane and I have no idea how they even reach it. Do you know how many lines of C++ code 500MB compiled and compressed is actually equivalent to? Billions. Literally billions. I just want to understand; Do you actually believe it takes a billion lines of code to transform input document data into a format readable by a laser printer?