The memory tax for GCed language was written up in [1]. The blog post [2] (which is a great read that I recommend) summarized it like this - "As long as you hav

The memory tax for GCed language was written up in [1]. The blog post [2] (which is a great read that I recommend) summarized it like this - "As long as you have about 6 times as much memory as you really need, you’re fine. But woe betide you if you have less than 4x the required memory." [1] http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~hertzm/gcmalloc-oopsla-2005.pdf http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~hertzm/gcmalloc-oopsla-2005.pdf [2] http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/ http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...