From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 21:46:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22929 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22924 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 21:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA17379; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:46:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA16195; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:46:01 -0600 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:46:01 -0600 Message-Id: <199808070446.WAA16195@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), reilly@zeta.org.au, tom@uniserve.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS In-Reply-To: <199808070148.SAA25886@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199808061438.IAA12182@mt.sri.com> <199808070148.SAA25886@usr06.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid 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. 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