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Our bloat problem
Our bloat problem
Posted Aug 4, 2005 17:54 UTC (Thu) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)In reply to: Our bloat problem by dmantione
Parent article: Our bloat problem
Perl runtime takes less than 2M. Python takes slightly over 2M. I doubt you have tested Mono or TCL. I'm willing to believe that some JVMs take a lot of RAM.
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Our bloat problem
Posted Aug 4, 2005 19:15 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
I'm willing to believe that some JVMs take a lot of RAM.That is probably why the most important efforts in Java on Linux (e.g. Red Hat's) are improvements in gcj: compiled Java, to do away with the JVM. Well, to be honest free Java is also a strong motivation.
gcj-Java shared libraries still carry a lot of bloat and take up many megabytes of RAM, but again I'm not sure it is actually used.
Our bloat problem
Posted Aug 5, 2005 9:37 UTC (Fri) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link]
2M for a script. Try to measure again for a real app, say Mandrake'surpmi and you'll see the Perl overhead starts to cost.
I'm coding a lot in TCL by the way, but Pascal is my main language, as
I'm developer for Free Pascal. Incidentally Free Pascal is a very good
tool for fighting bloat.