Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:48:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, reilly@zeta.org.au, tom@uniserve.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS Message-ID: <199808070148.SAA25886@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808061438.IAA12182@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 6, 98 08:38:27 am
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> > JAVA has a nasty tendency to leak like a sieve until the GC hits a > > steady state. As does Modula 3. > > You've *got* to be kidding, right? Do you have any idea how often the > GC collection pass is run? It would be *very* difficult in real world > programs to leak any signficicant (~1MB) of memory before the GC phase > kicked in. Your and my definitions of significant differ. For an embedded use, 1M is way, way too large. Most Palm pilots simply don't have that much memory to be abole to afford to leak that much. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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