Well i am quite experienced with Java and in my experience if they have this kind of ridiculous discrepancy in memory use, it implies they had a bad design or m

Well i am quite experienced with Java and in my experience if they have this kind of ridiculous discrepancy in memory use, it implies they had a bad design or made bad choices. A rewrite in Java with sane choices would also end up with much better results. So I don't buy the "language is responsible" argument.