On 6/26/07, James Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For my own edification and for your own education, I will explain why what > you are saying is wrong. > > Let's start with the most basic things. Visual Studio says it need between > 96 and 192MB of RAM depending on the operating system.
Please. I'm baffled as to why this is such an issue to you, and why you have such a double standard on the subject. The system requirements page for VS2005 Express Edition says exactly this: *RAM1*: Minimum: 192 megabytes (MB) Recommended: 256 MB And VS2008 system requirements says: "*RAM:* 1 GB of available physical RAM". That's 1/4 - 1/2 of what Eclipse uses under normal conditions. No, it's not. We covered this already. I dont know the reason for the discrepancy, but if you are going to quote > numbers, quote them all. I dont know what the published "minimum > requirements" are for Eclipse (if they exists), but they should be at least > 512MB (if Visual Studio is 192, i'd say 1GB) for Eclipse alone in addition > to whatever you need for everything else. It must be "make up numbers day". By the way, you can set exactly how much memory Eclipse uses if you choose to. However, because I am so tired of this line of debate, I'll end here by saying that if you really have such a limited computer that running a program that uses 150 Mb of physical RAM (with 100+ plugins loaded) and 150 Mb of swap file space is too much, and you refuse to spend $30 to buy another gig of RAM, then yes, don't use Eclipse (or Firefox, or Word, or Outlook, or any other program that uses memory in this range). Before you tell me that its impossible to write an efficient app as far as > total memory goes, grab a copy of uTorrent and check out its RAM usage. Not only is this completely unrelated to the topic, but it's also totally irrelevant as a comparison. uTorrent doesn't do anything but manage the transmission of network traffic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282241 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
