This isn’t Reddit. You don’t need to talk in absolutes.
I haven’t posted anything on reddit in years. There is no need to start off a post with insults.
re: garbage collection
I wrote java back in 1997 and the programs used a few megabytes. Garbage collection doesn’t in itself require significantly more ram because it only delays the freeing of ram that would have been allocated using a non garbage collection language. Syntatic sugar like iterators does not in general save gigabytes of ram.
The OP isn’t talking about 500k apps now requiring 1MB. The article talks about former 85K apps now taking GB’s of ram.
I haven’t posted anything on reddit in years. There is no need to start off a post with insults.
re: garbage collection
I wrote java back in 1997 and the programs used a few megabytes. Garbage collection doesn’t in itself require significantly more ram because it only delays the freeing of ram that would have been allocated using a non garbage collection language. Syntatic sugar like iterators does not in general save gigabytes of ram.
The OP isn’t talking about 500k apps now requiring 1MB. The article talks about former 85K apps now taking GB’s of ram.
I don’t know what part of that is supposed to be an insult.
And the article may have talked of such stark differences, but I didn’t. I’m just saying that the resource usage is noticeably lower.