Re: JVM News

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

35-40 meg for a "Hello World" app? That seems to be a number so extreme as
to be highly questionable. Are they talking about the size of the Java Byte
Code or are they talking about the the total size of the entire Java
environment necessary to run a "Hello World" app? The former is really hard
to believe and the latter might be a bit of an unfair criticism. (Would a
"Hello World" app written for Windows have to count all of Windows as part
of its "footprint"?)

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Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz> wrote in message
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> >|
> >| - Large footprint of applications when run on Solaris.
> >|   A simple application ("hello world" type) has a total
> >|   footprint of 35-40 megs on Solaris 9 (build 48, using
> >|   Java 1.4 build 82) on both Intel and Sparc machines.
> >|   Sparc machines, by far, have a much higher resident
> >|   footprint then Intel machines (~30 megs, compared to
> >|   ~11 megs). The same program run on a Windows machine
> >|   has a footprint of ~5 megs, resident footprint being
> >|   ~3.5 megs.