Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM People of a certain age sometimes like to reminisce about how software in the old days was somehow more responsive and more efficient on far less powerful hardware. Microsoft approach was to take its software binaries and optimize the heck out of them. Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer spilled the beans on the practice, confirming that the company used an internal application called Basic Block Tool BBT – known internally as...
