On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 12:50 +0000, Ian wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 07:09 -0400, Michael Meeks wrote: > > > > At least then it would run on any platform with a JVM eg cell phone > > > > Sure any cell-phone with a vast amount of RAM, and a CPU twice as fast > > as those we have currently in desktops might give reasonable > > performance. > > Ok, perhaps a daft suggestion but the principle is that all cell phones > will have a vast amount of RAM and fast CPUs in the next 2 to 3 years. A > gig of RAM is normal now, it would have been unthinkable 10 years ago.
Personally, a mindset such as "RAM is cheap these days, so let's waste it" troubles me as a developer. It's true that RAM is cheaper, but we are not yet to the point where we no longer have to worry about runtime RAM usage - far from it. Just like consumers have managed to find ways to fill ever-so-increasing hard disk space, developers will find ways to use up ever-so-increasing memory space (and I've seen enough evidence of it). So, we should always be encouraging ourselves to reduce memory footprint, instead of wasting it. BTW, I love C++, which is standardized enough, is not tied to any single vendor, and can generate native code, not byte code. Just my opinion. Kohei -- Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc <kyosh...@novell.com> -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
