Usually means: Excessive, unnecessary features slow performance.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Software bloat)

noun:  a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version, while making only dubious user-perceptible improvements or suffering from feature creep.


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