Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

[Paolo Ciccone]

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:47:18PM -0500, Alan Hazelton wrote:
> 
> I agree with your surprise though.  It seems quite outrageous to require so
> much memory for an application.  I think the JBuilder team should have spent
> a bit more time trimming the memory requirements before rushing the product
> out the door.

Actually JBuilder uses a lot of on-demand/delayed loading of classes. The
product is highly modular and the IDE basically runs a smal kernel that uses
the OpenTools interface instantiate almost everything, from the Menu system
to the virtual file system. We trimmed as much it was possible without
sacrifying functionality. Java 2 1.3 is expected to sensibly reduce the
memory footprint.

-- 
Paolo Ciccone
JBuilder dev.team


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