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Probably just a joke because of the tendency of Java applications (and other garbage collected languages to be honest) to consume an ungodly amount of RAM. Alth
by simias 8y ago
Probably just a joke because of the tendency of Java applications (and other garbage collected languages to be honest) to consume an ungodly amount of RAM. Although these days I'd probably blame the web for that...
- Inityx 8y agoNot garbage collected languages per se; it's languages where data structures can't be value types[1], consequently consuming large amounts of extra memory because everything sits behind 2 or 3 or 5 layers of unnecessary 8-byte pointers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_type_and_reference_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_type_and_reference_type