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Subject: Re: OOP - Not for computer chess?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 05:30:55 02/14/03

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On February 14, 2003 at 05:57:57, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On February 14, 2003 at 03:03:46, Matt Taylor wrote:
>
>>
>>Yes, on good JVMs. Sun's is awful. A good friend of mine recently informed me of
>>a leaked Sun memo documenting programs that consumed 900+ MB of ram. A Hello
>>World program took 20 MB. I don't know which version of the JVM or what the
>>first program was doing; all I know is that the memo documented opinion that the
>>Sun JVM is not terribly great.
>>
>
>I work with closely with some people from SUN also, and I saw an internal memo
>the other day that basically told people not to use Java for any of their own
>internal stuff that had to be used in any serious way :)
>
>/David

Sun has since said that the memo was 2 years old and that the problems have
since been fixed.  (I can't confirm or deny!)

Dave



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