Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:53:41 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Future of Java question.... Message-ID: <20020621035341.A2383@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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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
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