From: Mike Nice 

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:09:46 -0500, "Dave Ings"
 wrote:

>Java development tools like the IBM ones I help develop are consuming vast
amounts of memory. The latest release of our stuff recommends using up to 1G of RAM.

   I laughed the first time I saw one of the developers talking about "small 1k
web Java applets".
They didn't mention the 15M interpreter that needed monthly updates.  The
1K applets were of course
little more than the Hello Graphics World type.

   Do you have a feel what takes so much memory?

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