Re: real-time Java

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <tor.iver.wilhelmsen@broadpark.no>]

Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> writes:

> I was amused at JBuilder one day.  I pulled down an
> "info" menu option.  At the bottom of the little widget
> that popped up was the amount of memory in use.  Even though
> I was doing absolutely nothing, the number kept slowly rising.

Welcome to the wonderful world of non-immutable events leading to tons
of events created and discarded in any given Swing application as it
runs. Even if you did absolutely nothing, Swing (and possibly
JBuilder's "virtual file system") was generating events like asking
itself if it needed to repaint etc.