From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 18:49:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27995 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:49:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27963 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16836; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:48:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd016759; Thu Aug 6 18:48:51 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA25886; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:48:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808070148.SAA25886@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:48:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, reilly@zeta.org.au, tom@uniserve.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808061438.IAA12182@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 6, 98 08:38:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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