Originally Posted by kerrang
I know that many addon authors are a bit sick of the way users will talk about 'light' addons - "memory efficient" addons etc. - when in truth they have NO idea what they're talking about because they simply don't understand what does and does not make a well written/efficient addon.
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I fully agree with this.
The people don't care about that. They THINK the care ... but in real the only criterion they have is "how much memory is used by the mod " - which has in fact absolutely nothing to do with the mods performance.
Of course there are criteria that should care for users ... for example how long takes it to load the mod or how much CPU time it takes. But all the other and highly technical stuff it's absolutely insignificant for the typical user.
I'm sure no one cares if the developer uses local or global vars or if the mod takes 100 kb or 5 mb memory or if "the author follows good coding practices" as long as the mod works without major performance losses and is great to use.