Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:46:01 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), reilly@zeta.org.au, tom@uniserve.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS Message-ID: <199808070446.WAA16195@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199808070148.SAA25886@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199808061438.IAA12182@mt.sri.com> <199808070148.SAA25886@usr06.primenet.com>
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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. On the palm pilot, you couldn't allocate 1M of stuff in that short of time. :) (The stuff I'm allocating is about 500-1MB/object, so your point is truly moot. Especially considering the footprint of my entire program is around 60-70MB.) Don't ask like an expert on something you have no idea on. Nate ps. There is no *real* Java on a pilot, and as such they're GC scheme could be much different than the current scheme, though I doubt it would make much difference. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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