Re: Java thory and proctice: Garbase collection and performance

2004-02-20 Thread J.Pietschmann
John Austin wrote: Isn't allocation the only unseen part of construction ? Everything else is visible in the code and surely a few assignments are never expensive. Any other expensive operations will stand out in measurements of code execution. That's correct. However, the article seemed to shout

Re: Java thory and proctice: Garbase collection and performance

2004-02-20 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 15:46, J.Pietschmann wrote: *bg* Twenty years ago, I had to work on a 8008 driven computer with 4k RAM and 12k ROM. That's enough to run a program which nicely prints formatted and justified text (25 lines a 80 characters). We went a lng way since then. I went to a

Re: Java thory and proctice: Garbase collection and performance

2004-02-19 Thread J.Pietschmann
John Austin wrote: I noticed this artcle on Developer Works: Java theory and practice: Garbage collection and performance http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp01274.html Something to read on Thursday. Nice read, however, they don't talk about constructors. There are still arguments

Re: Java thory and proctice: Garbase collection and performance

2004-02-19 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 17:53, J.Pietschmann wrote: John Austin wrote: I noticed this artcle on Developer Works: Java theory and practice: Garbage collection and performance http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp01274.html Something to read on Thursday. Nice read,

Java thory and proctice: Garbase collection and performance

2004-02-18 Thread John Austin
I noticed this artcle on Developer Works: Java theory and practice: Garbage collection and performance http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp01274.html Something to read on Thursday. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]