On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Hans Fugal wrote:
And I don't care what you say, Java IS a memory hog. I don't
need some web article to debunk what I can see day in and day out on top
and ps.
...
extra 11, and you still have 45m which ties for top RAM user with
thunderbird, and they're both 20MB more than my biggest rails app. Now,
I admit it looks like openoffice isn't running...
I'd have to agree that Java is typically more memory-hungry than other
applications--however, in my experience that's only a one-time cost. In
other words, for me to run Eclipse comfortably I need half a gig of RAM
(a gig if I hope to run several other non-Java applications without
swapping). But I can run two or three more copies of Eclipse with very
little overhead above that, as well as half a dozen other Java apps. The
intial memory cost to have something running in a JVM seems to be rather
high, but once you hit that point everything else seems to be very
comparable to non-Java applications in terms of memory usage.
~ Ross
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