This has nothing to do with C. C is nothing without specific libraries. If interfacing with this system is slow, then that system is slow.

How does GNUMed compare to all this?
http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed

Without advertising you often have to either charge for access to your website, or rake in donations. You are being very naive with your assumptions.

Exactly. Where are my mod points when I need them.

Yes, because people can really push through some massive amounts of bandwidth. Like 2 bytes/second tops (typing rate)? That's totally expensive. And I don't know about your SMS, but low latency is hardly what I think of when I think of SMS.

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The <a> tag is also used for internal document references (anchors) and javascript calls. So, your measurement is not completely valid. Also, this is slashdot. Where every single comment has like 8 links on it.

Professor Falcon?

Why would they? URL size is miniscule compared to the page size.

Is this order of maginitude 33% bigger?

Haha, I have heard Foxfire a couple million times. Man, Thunderbird was really fun.

Right... the masses... Lets perform a psychology "experiment" here. Ask any non-geek what version number of any piece of software they are running. Hell, ask them for the name of that software. Most cannot answer either. Generally, "the masses" only know a couple things "this is my internet", "this is how I type stuff", "this is how I email", etc.

Release early, release often, release statements of current functionality. Seriously, no non-geek is going to be installing software that isn't test by some bff geek anyway. So release early and often so the geeks can help guide its direction and give feedback.

I agree.