From: sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S. (sehh_at_altered.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 12:52:42 EST
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:03:05 -0500, R Briganti wrote:
>> Keep in mind that if you open any two or more of these applications at a
>> time and jump between them (task-switching), or even have two or more
>> actively working at a time (multitasking), you'll accentuate the need for
>> more memory.
>So, if all you do is run one program, then having a lot of memory is not
>that important. But if you use the machine for multitasking several
>programs, then more memory than they recommend is better.
Also remember that each Java program that you load runs on its
own JVM (JavaVirtualMachine), and unless you modified the default
settings, each JVM will use 8megs of heap space plus 5-10 megs
for the JVM. All that PER APPLICATION. That a lot of memory.
Memory consumption is one of the big problems with Java, another
problem is the speed of the interpreter while the java binary is been
read and the java interface which is very basic and doesn't help with
multimedia applications.
So if you can find an application in native and in java form, i'd suggest
you use the native one to your operating system.
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