From: "Jochem van Dieten"Sasha Pachev wrote:
In Java is it easy to write a program that wastes large amounts of memory, which is worse than a leak. In C, you are full from the start, and then you leak a drop at a time until you are empty. In Java , you are empty from the start, and you have nothing to leak anyway even if you could :-)
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/shah01java.html
Their conclusion is that the memory management and the garbage collection of Java is inefficient. The graph that they present shows an up to 2.5-fold performance degradation with the Java garbage collector, compared to their own tailored memory management system.
Indeed. I think the article nicely illustrates Sasha's point regarding the efficiency of Java. But I just posted this link since since it is about a database system (of some sort) and I'm trying to stay on-topic ;-)
Jochem
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