>> 5. Why does this program require 4GB of ram? > Java is actually very memory efficient, all things considering. Huh? Considering what? Compared to what? >

>> 5. Why does this program require 4GB of ram? > Java is actually very memory efficient, all things considering. Huh? Considering what? Compared to what? > There are Ruby developers choosing JRuby for deployment because of that efficiency. Yeah, Java !=JVM, and Ruby is not Go so this is kind of moot. >By the time Go's GC will reach the same maturity, it will behave similarly. Says who? You can't just state that as a fact without backing it up somehow.