There’s plenty of room at the Top: computer performance after Moore’s law

Re:There’s plenty of room at the Top: computer performance a... by ncmncm on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:39AM (#23445810)

That's garbage collection for you. Typical GC programs want all the memory there is, just to be able to sweep less often.

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Re:There’s plenty of room at the Top: computer performance a... by imtringued on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:27AM (#23454710)

From my experiments with the JVM that is not really true. Keeping memory usage below 1GB is pretty easy. It's only getting tricky when you want to go below 200MB. You'll have to deal with the overhead the JVM introduces. As a result I often just use lua for really simple programs and I am rewarded by creating programs that use less than 2MB of RAM.

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Re:There’s plenty of room at the Top: computer performance a... by pdimitar on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:59AM (#23457053)

Which Lua kind/runtime you're using that give you such frugal programs? I'm intrigued (pun with your name intended).

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