Well, I meant that if you hit the Java memory limit your app was guaranteed to crash but C allowed you to use an order of magnitude more memory without noticeab

Well, I meant that if you hit the Java memory limit your app was guaranteed to crash but C allowed you to use an order of magnitude more memory without noticeable consequences when your app was in the foreground. Your app was probably more likely to be closed when it went in the background but that wasn't an issue.