.NET 4.5: BCL Team - Improvements and Evolution
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.NET 4.5: Size-on-disk improvements
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Description
In the next release of .NET (version 4.5), less disk space will be used to store .NET on your system. In fact, roughly 40% less space than is required today in some cases. This is a significant milestone for .NET. Besides taking up less physical space inside your desktop PC, .NET 4.5 will fit onto your more disk-space-limited devices (like a tablet, for example...). Here, we meet Layla Driscoll, the Program Manager for this project, and Ashok Kamath, the Development Lead for this project.
How do you make something 40% smaller and not remove a bunch of stuff? What did they do? What strategies were employed? What did they learn about the overall .NET system while figuring out how to take up less room when installed? What's next?
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The Discussion
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Hamid_Fathi Good job .
Does it apply on portable version too ?
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deadlydog Very nice......hopefully this will mean that devices that currently support subsets of .Net (like the .Net compact framework) will be able to switch to providing support for the full .Net framework. Good job!
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KeyboardG After seeing the work like this for Silverlight, I knew it was a matter of time before it got into the base framework.
edit: That IS rock and roll.
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MagicAndre1981 good video with some nice information
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Raphael I ask my self sometime how you make something 100% bigger without adding a bunch of stuff. If you made that it's no problem to shrink the size by 40%!
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timacheson Awesome! Every megabyte counts.
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martinmine So how much Space does it actually use?
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Mike Where is the audio only download?
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aL_ really cool to see these kinds of investments in the full .net framework
maybe a single .net framework is not just a pipedream
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Charles @Mike:Good question. Looking into it.
C
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Mike Thanks, see it there now
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radioman_LT ..what about terabyte WinSxS**ks ?? .net is small anyway ;/
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JohnSawyer I have one concern:
- for HDDs - the size is a non-issue
- for SSDs / NAND based drives - you get wearing by unnecessary rewriting
- for VMs - rewriting causes the diff image to grow - therefore using MORE disk space
Did you take these concerns into account when designing the disk size "improvements"?
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