Related to the last episode, I heard Dick telling he's running a 32-bit JVM on his - presumably - 64-bit Linux machine.
Last time I tried this the JDK installer simply wouldn't work. Or does it now ? I'd very much like to try this because according to technical lecture the 32-bit JVM runs faster because it can cache twice as much references than its 64-bit equivalent. Meaning it will run faster. And consume less memory. This is especially true when creating huge object graphs. I'm going for the middle ground: -XX:+UseCompressedOops. The size of the references are smaller (never mind how they do that). And the memory consumption is indeed lower for huge amounts of live objects. It is said there's a performance price to pay though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
