Re:MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO
by bzzzt on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:39AM
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Depends on the course I think.
But 8Gb is more than enough to run a Java 'Hello World' GUI app or even something heavier. Students don't - as a rule - get to deal with millions of lines codebases.
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Re:MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO
by brabel on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:59AM
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I don’t know if you’re serious but a Java Swing all that’s simple should not consume more than 8 Mb, let alone GB!
Re:MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO
by bzzzt on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:55AM
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Just tried out a simple Java Swing popup and it uses 6Mb of heap so that's allright then ;). (on my machine it will reserve 160Mb of memory for thread stacks, code caches, buffers and GC but that won't be a problem unless you use it)
In the 90s I also thought that was wasteful (my first PC had 32Mb). Nowadays with Electron apps taking up gigabytes it doesn't seem that bad anymore.