[Fwd: Re: GCJ vs. C++ in RAM]

Tue Apr 6 21:11:00 GMT 2004

Cool, thanks! Do you have any sense of how much of the heap space is 
dedicated to the garbage collector? In other words, if Java didn't have 
the Boehm garbage collector built into it, how much smaller would the 
heap be? I suspect that if we use C++, we'll use reference counting base 
classes or something along those lines, so we won't have the overhead of 
running the gc...
Vlad
> Not quite. 4MB on disk, 4MB + 10MB = 14MB in RAM.
>> I have no idea what a similar C++ program would be. I am guessing 
> that the executable could be half as large, but the heap would be 
> similar for similar applications.
>> Dave.