From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e940fd5ba87c3ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,ebcb336c62963fb4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-15 22:07:27 PST Sender: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@TIWILHEL Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: real-time Java References: <5ad0dd8a.0304150959.b35340e@posting.google.com> From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen Date: 16 Apr 2003 07:16:54 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 103.80-202-75.nextgentel.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 103.80-202-75.nextgentel.com X-Trace: news.broadpark.no 1050469667 103.80-202-75.nextgentel.com (16 Apr 2003 07:07:47 +0100) Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!nntp.gblx.net!news.broadpark.no Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62240 comp.lang.ada:36179 Date: 2003-04-16T07:16:54+02:00 List-Id: Wesley Groleau 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.