> the numbers ... on the shootout site Java 6 -server memory use reported on the benchmarks game site that's around 12,000KB - 14,000KB is base JVM use at defa

> the numbers ... on the shootout site Java 6 -server memory use reported on the benchmarks game site that's around 12,000KB - 14,000KB is base JVM use at default settings - so it probably isn't telling you much that's interesting. Although you might see a couple of examples where CPython memory use is higher because of buffering before output from multiple processes can be synced - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=java&lang2=python&box=1#measurements http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al... Notice where both programs show more than 100,000KB.