From owner-freebsd-java Thu Jun 20 19:53:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C099437B40E for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 17LEYP-0000jI-00 for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:53:41 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g5L2rff02424 for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:53:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:53:41 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Future of Java question.... Message-ID: <20020621035341.A2383@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I go back and forth between loving Java and hating it. I grew up doing 6510 ML programming, and more recently, loving the performance Unix affords. Java has amazing ways of making networking, I/O, event handling, and programming in general so much simpler. But this comes at a price: memory and CPU. My CPU usage in GKrellM is pegged for every compile and run. Memory is sucked up by the Java VM. All-in-all, I'm not sure how I feel about this. Maybe I'll decide to learn the Unix API better. But chances are, even if I do, I'll be back to Java because of its elegance and platform independence. The question is, are the benefits worth the price? In a similar vein, does .Net exact the same kind of performance hit? In your opinion, will Java remain a viable platform for the forseeable future? Or will it bloat itself into oblivion? jm -- Java on a laptop: the JIT hits the fan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message